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Question: Dental question..I was wondering if an infection after dental surgery can cause severe facial swelling?
My partner has severe pain in his tooth and on one side of his face. He had a root canal about a month ago and went to his regular dentist with the problem 2 days ago. They did an x-ray and nothing showed up. She re-did a filling & sent him home with some Keflex antibitotic and Viacaden. After he came back Tuesday afternoon his whole left side of his face had swollen where the work was done. He had a fever and severe pain, & also trouble and pain urinating. When our regular doctor was in yesterday, I took him in there he examined him and said he had a bacterial infection & gave him Biaxin (generic) and drew his blood. The blood test came back normal today but his face is still swollen and in pain on the one side and it doesn't look like it has gone down at all despite the antibiotics. A family member who was married to a dentist said the infection could spread to his brain or he might be having kidney failure with the urinating pain issue which panicked me. What can we do now for him?
Should we try in seattle?
Answer: I had a similar issue a year or so.. I was given Clindamyacin? not sure of the spelling... the cause of my swelling was an abcess that formed under my gums in the space where the tooth had been after they began to heal... abcesses are said to induce a form of toxic shock if they rupture and cause an adverse reaction with the body's natural process for digesting food through the intestines or liver and processing waste to be expelled.. it can really mess ya up.. get it taken care of
Your partner might be having a periodontal abscess. It means that there is an infection of dental origin which spread to the face and even to the maxillary sinus as manifested by the fever, pain and swelling. However, the pain in urination might be a different problem. Have him checked by an otolaryngologist. He might need intravenous antibiotics if he is not responding from oral medication. There is a danger for the infection to spread intracranially and cause more harm.
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