Suggest treatment for illness caused after rear molar extraction
Patient: Hi, I m not one to be concerned about colds and minor illnesses, but on Friday I had a rear molar extracted that had been causing me some trouble,(I had a filling put in 2 weeks before which had caused pain and tingling to the side of my face that travelled to my arm just on the right side) and as I could not afford root canal and a crown I opted for extraction. Not 3 hours after the extraction I came down with cold type symptoms, blocked nose, slight earache, cough, phlegm, etc. This seemed to have peaked yesterday as I began to feel a bit better. However, today, I have been feeling sick, vomiting, and a slight pain in my ear is now complete hearing loss in my right ear, combined with tingling and numbness in the right side of my face from my eye, across my cheek to my chin and ear. The sudden onset of these symptoms have me a bit worried, what is the best course of action, should I ride it out until I can get to my GP on Thursday, or do something sooner? Kind regards Sarah Doctor: Hello, Thank you for consulting with HCM.Actually these third molars are in very close contact to the maxillary sinus. the symptoms which you are mentioning it looks that there is a possibility that the infection of molar has extended to the sinus or the dentist might have perforated the sinus.Better that once you should visit an ENT specialist and get a skull x-ray done which will show you the infection.Hope it will help you.