25-07-2024, 08:14 PM
(25-07-2024, 07:03 PM)Outsider Wrote:Unfortunately dental infections have a bad habit of being persistent due to the bacterial environment of the mouth and difficulties in the ability of antibiotics accessing the vascularity of bony structures such as the jaw. In the case of an abcessed tooth ABs are often used in more of a 'holding' treatment until extraction rather than a full solution.(25-07-2024, 10:07 AM)I'm pleased to tell you that it doesn't necessarily work like that. The antibiotics would have been prescribed because you had an infection under the tooth (abcess). That happened to me, but the antibiotics would have hopefully killed the infection so the tooth can still be extracted any time (as long as the infection is not still there). Wrote: Oh_hunnihunni
My dentist adventure is getting stressful. Having finished the antibiotic course and got myself psyched up for the extraction I get postponed because the dentist is ill, twice. So now the antibiotic cover is running out and I have to either do another course or find another dentist... Who of course will need to repeat the drugs anyway. And I hate antibiotics, especially used this way because of the danger of building resistance.
It is obviously not my week.
Just as well I have plenty of handwork to keep my stress levels damped down! Seeing I can't drown my sorrows with those bloody pills on board, grrrrr...