Mouth infection after tooth extraction, Yes, No

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Age? Male or female?

Past medical history?

Any medicines using?

Without the requested information, I can only give you a fairly general answer. I hope it is helpful.

Looks like you are having tooth infection called pulpitis. Pulpitis happens when your dental pulp becomes inflamed.

Your teeth have 3 layers: the enamel on the outside, the dentin that supports the enamel, and the dental pulp on the innermost part of your tooth.‌ This central part of your tooth is made of connective tissue, nerves, and blood vessels

It can occur in one or more teeth, and is caused by bacteria that invade the tooth’s pulp, causing it to swell.

Symptoms of pulpitis include:

• inflammation
• sensitivity to hot and cold food
• sensitivity to very sweet food

• running a fever
• swollen lymph nodes
• bad breath
• bad taste in the mouth

You might need swab test and antibiotics

There are 2 options for you to get the antibiotics quickly over the weekend

The first and best option would be to call out of hours GP now and to get the prescription as the out of hours GP would have access to your records

The second option is usually local hospital emergency where you can get medicines straight away for few days

Once you have an examination and swab test to look for any specific bacteria causing infection you would get antibiotics if needed

Until that keep using:

1. Corsodyl mouth wash or Benzamydine (Difflam) mouth wash twice daily

2. Paracetamol 500mg tablets can be taken as 2 tablets every 6 hourly (maximum 8 tablets in 24 hours safely)

3. Ibuprofen 200mg tablets can be taken as 2 tablets three times a day (maximum 6 tablets in 24 hours safely)