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I broke my front teeth when I was 15. Fell on the pavement. They saved the teeth but about 10 years ago someone knocked me in the mouth and it shattered what was left of my front left tooth. We had to remove the cap and extract the left tooth, but kept the right one. The dentist fashioned a bridge over 3 of the front teeth.
I started bicillin in November and ever since I have had pain in the left tooth, but funny enough there is no tooth in there, just the bridge. Pain is in the gum area where they put some tissue from roof of mouth to fill out the gum.
I have heard of Borrelia loving scar tissue, so maybe the bacteria have sequestered there and I am feeling it more because of the high dose of Bicillin killing them off OR maybe there is an infection brewing. No visible signs of infection and the last dentist I saw noticed nothing on x-ray.
Will go to biological dentist this week but if there are any dentists out there I would love to hear an opinion. Perhaps the dentist should have done implants, but biological dentists tell me what this dentist did was actually safer (the bridge). The drawback being that all three teeth in the front are bound together and that supposedly is not great for acupuncture meridians and can cause stress on the organs.
Any advice greatly appreciated!
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kelmo
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My daughter got terrible tooth pain while on bartonella treatment. We would watch to see if it would shift, and it usually did. So, we knew it was a nerve being affected.
But...if it stayed on that one tooth for over a week, we would just have the dentist check it.
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I had tooth pain in a root canal tooth shortly after I started taking abx. The dentist did see something (maybe swelling?) in the root of the tooth when she x-rayed it and sent me to the endodontist.
He wanted to do a second root canal but wanted to check with my LLMD first. My LLMD said to put it off as long as possible. The dentist thought I had an infection there that was being suppressed by the abx but would get worse.
I couldn't decide what to do about getting another root canal or pulling the tooth so I kept putting it off. My pain was tolerable.
Anyway, the pain eventually went away after a few months. I haven't felt it in almost a year. Maybe I am risking future problems, but I am guessing something was stirred up by my Lyme treatement.
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stymielymie
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probably abscess of the right front tooth and draining fistula or abscess in area of extraction. usually trauma as child requires root canals as adults. an xray should confirm abscess or fracture of the other traumatized tooth from the first fall. BTW rot canal can be down thru back of tooth without taking off bridge. docdave
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dmc
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Article from Public Health Alert July 2009 issue
"Lyme Often resides in Mouth"
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Amanda
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I have almost perfect teeth, never had a cavity or filling or root canal, nothing, not even when I was a child.
Lyme doc told me that lyme likes the gums and nerves in mouth, and I notice it hurts more when I do my bicillin shots.
But its good you are having a dentist check it out, just to make sure it isnt something else...
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