Hello All!
I'm posting this here for my mother. Here's the story, and hopefully we can get some answers.
A few weeks ago we went to Mexico for some dental work. I had some cavities worked on, and my mother needed a few crowns and found out she needed an implant. She went back a week later and had the work done.
She started feeling immense pain shortly after. She was given an antibiotic and a pain killer - which relived her pain somewhat, but not by much. Several days later, the pain was unbearable and it looked really red and almost "infected" looking. She called the dentist and went back down for them to take a look. They said the implant may have been initially too big, and that it would probably be best at the moment to just take out the tooth (leaving the screw inside) and let it heal. She came home, and a week after she was still feeling pain. She contacted an oral surgeon in America and had him take a look. He said he didn't see anything particularly wrong with the way it was done, just that it may have trapped some bacteria down inside and there was a 50/50 chance that it could recover from more antibiotics. He sent her home. The next day she was in tears and set up an appointment with the same doctor to just have him remove everything from the implant site. They did so.
She is on day 4 of having it out, and she is still feeling incredible amounts of pain. She is still on pain medication and the antibiotic and she is sick of being on pills and feeling "loopy" all the time. I took a picture of the tooth site, and am wondering if anyone can give any insight as to what the cause of the pain may be??
Thank you!
I'm posting this here for my mother. Here's the story, and hopefully we can get some answers.
A few weeks ago we went to Mexico for some dental work. I had some cavities worked on, and my mother needed a few crowns and found out she needed an implant. She went back a week later and had the work done.
She started feeling immense pain shortly after. She was given an antibiotic and a pain killer - which relived her pain somewhat, but not by much. Several days later, the pain was unbearable and it looked really red and almost "infected" looking. She called the dentist and went back down for them to take a look. They said the implant may have been initially too big, and that it would probably be best at the moment to just take out the tooth (leaving the screw inside) and let it heal. She came home, and a week after she was still feeling pain. She contacted an oral surgeon in America and had him take a look. He said he didn't see anything particularly wrong with the way it was done, just that it may have trapped some bacteria down inside and there was a 50/50 chance that it could recover from more antibiotics. He sent her home. The next day she was in tears and set up an appointment with the same doctor to just have him remove everything from the implant site. They did so.
She is on day 4 of having it out, and she is still feeling incredible amounts of pain. She is still on pain medication and the antibiotic and she is sick of being on pills and feeling "loopy" all the time. I took a picture of the tooth site, and am wondering if anyone can give any insight as to what the cause of the pain may be??
Thank you!