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I had a dental visit today for routine checkup and cleaning. No cavities again. Hooray.
I expressed my concern about my swollen lymph node along my jawline and my teeth moving and with a chronic infection was wondering what the dentist thought of a Cavitat ultrasound to check the jaw bone health.
A what? she said.. Never heard of it.
She did a full mouth and jaw xray and was surprised to see bone loss in my upper jaw and decreased bone density.
Anybody else had this issue? She said I am way too young for this and suggested I get a bone scan, not thinking the cause was infectious in nature.
Has anyone here had a cavitat ultrasound of the jaw?
I feel like I am decomposing.
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Wrong section. How do I move this post to medical?
Geesh.. what a lyme brain.
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trueblue
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Ima, Just copy what you wrote and start a new thread in Medical and pretend this never happened, lol.
As for the bone loss, I haven't with my jaw, that I know of. I do have bone loss in the A/C joints that occured early on. They felt it was secondary to the Lyme (if it wasn't a repetative motion injury, which it wasn't).
I just went to the dentist and was told no cavities and no explanation for the swollen lymph node under my jaw. He said it was probably a stuck stone in the saliva gland. (Naturally it wasn't swollen the day I went. )
I have never asked for a jaw x-ray and only had bitewings done.
I think there have been a couple of posts about this recently in Medical.
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bettyg
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yes, copy this to medical and come back here and delete this one.
click on pencil icon on your top post, go to left hand corner and click DELETE POST; hit enter and it's gone.
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