Well, my dental saga is not over, far from it. My pain on the upper left side of my mouth has steadily been increasing. I phoned Dr Fugler office yesterday and they gave me some more hydrocodone, and an appt for today at 4. I had a followup for monday 31Aug but just couldnt wait. The last couple evenings the pain has really been bad, and this morning it was soooo bad I couldnt go to work.
So I saw Dr Fugler today. Good news: the extraction site is healing nicely, no dry socket or other problems that he could see. The Bad news: the pain is most likely coming from a previously filled cavity on my #15 molar (one behind the one that got pulled). He noted this / mentioned it to me as he finished up pulling #14 two weeks ago, as something I should have looked at within a month or so. However upon seeing it today, he said that is most likely the source of the pain, something about having the neighbor tooth removed allowed the old filling to shift or whatever, and now food etc is getting down into that cavity.
I called Bent Tree (my 2010 dentist, due to screwing up the insurance enrollment) and they have agreed to see me tomorrow at 11. They mentioned that in their file (from my visit on 15Jul, only time i've seen them) they had #15 marked for a crown. I'm a little leery and kind of leaning toward getting it pulled and putting an implant in there. We'll see what they say tomorrow.
Pain now is semi manageable (2.5 on a 0-10 scale) hopefully it will stay that way until tomorrow.
To be continued...
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