| Question: | Hi Dr. Web,
8 weeks ago I had 3 wisdom teeth pulled. Both top ones and impacted bottom left one. I am 40 yrs old. Right off the bat my bottom one got dry socket. It took a week of treatments to make it better. All along though, I felt I had two problems. The dry socket pain and also extreme pain in my left cheek. There was a hard lump in cheek and felt like I was hit w/ a baseball bat. The doctor said it was probably a hematoma & in time it would go away. When dry socket was better he said I was done w/ visits. I still had cheek pain but trusted it would get better. Then, 1-1/2 weeks ago (6-1/2 wks post removal), My bruised feeling lump in left cheek started getting worse. Felt like it was swelling & more painful! Last Tues I went back to Dr. He said it was not normal. He put me to sleep again & said he found cottage cheese white puss he removed. Next day I told him the lump was still there & I didn't think he operated in right place. He assured me he did & said it was swelling from procedure. (I just knew he was wrong, since it was the same painful lump that began after wisdom tooth removal.) Anyways, I started to get sick and got a bad sore throat. Finally on Friday, he realized I was right. He said, oh, I feel the lump and that is not where I removed the puss from. He put me under again on Fri. to get to it. When I woke up, I was informed he had done "extensive mouth surgery" on me. I'm in so much pain! Apparently, he went back in through bottom gum and grinded some bone, probed around and ended up having to go far out to my cheek to finally find the lump. It was size of a grape. He removed a piece of it and cut up the rest into pieces. He has no answer as to why that happened after the wisdom tooth surgery. He said he's never seen it before. Have you ever heard of such a thing? What could it be? I've been on 2 different antibiotics now and my throat is better as of yesterday. I'm not feeling infected now, just lots of pain. (Could it have been caused by the needle of novacaine in my cheek? Could he have tweeked my cheek during the operation to cause it?) Thank you for any info you may have. |