Can you send Becky your prayers and good vibes please

[Lionheart]

Guess I should have read the rest of the subsequent posts :-) Sounds like he did an open and drain procedure without any drainage noted. Just have to wait and let antibiotics and nature take its course. Just a note about not using anesthetic in this case-it's actually a wise choice. If the nerve is dead, the only discomfort will be from the vibration of the bur on a sore tooth. If it's temperature sensitive, it's a live tooth and the abcess belongs to another tooth or it's a cyst. Also, it's a bad idea to inject into an area with that much swelling and infection (potential needle tract infection), and the fact that anesthetic ph gets affected enough from infection to render it less than effective in many cases.
Leon

[Alison]

Thanks Leon.
Yeah I think it did get their red lights going.

This is a long on-going problem.
When she was at Junior school Gina accidentally kicked her on the chin.
She had a small bubble come up in that area but it burst on it's own.
Then when we moved house I changed Dentists and she must have had something similar again because an X-ray was taken and she was referred to the dental specialist at the hospital.

He said the nerve was dead and if the problem continued she would either have to have root canal treatment or have the teeth removed.
I don't think it was explained very clearly to us though because since then, she has been cleaning her teeth, meticulously, thinking that this would help save her teeth.

The dentist that she saw the other day must have been the top dentist in the surgery because he carried out the work yesterday.
He explained things beautifully. Showing us the X-ray and pointing out the nerve that was dead. He also described root canal treatment as "just like a filling". Drilling into the back of the tooth and washing out the bacteria and then filling it.

I understood why no anesthetic was given. I gathered that he wanted to test the surrounding teeth for sensitivity and that he didn't want to inject into the area of the swelling.
He said all the other teeth were still alive but how this is going to affect the other teeth we don't know yet, we will just have to wait and see. We will have to just take it one day at a time.

Hopefully she will be alot better on Tuesday. The dentist said he miight use a bit of anesthetic that time.

[yogestee]

Ali and Becky,,,my thoughts and wishes are with you..Looking forward to seeing that pretty face here again soon..

Jurgen
Australia

[readingr]

Alison,

Hope all is now well and there are no long term effects.

Give Becky my best wishes and hope she's now back to her old/young self.


Roger

[Alison]

Not sure if I told anyone here, but after all of this happened with Becky, I thought about getting a photograph printed for the dentist as a thank you for treating Becky so well.

Well, I did it and Becky presented the dentist with the print (below) at the end of April.

I went to the dentist today, and, as you sit in the dentist's chair and face away from the dentist, directly in front of you is a wall. This is where Becky's picture is displayed.
The dentist says her patients have been asking about it and she proudly replies "That's a patient of mine."

I have NEVER seen such a big smile on a dentist's face.
She is still smiling, from ear to ear. The same kind of smile she had on her face the day Becky presented her with the photograph.

That made my day today, seeing how happy I have made someone with one of my photographs and I bet the dentist feels appreciated too

We see the dentist, that carried out all the serious treatment, in July. We also gave him a print but we didn't get to see his reaction as he was on holiday at the time. So I had to leave the print with his assistant.