Re: chronic severe pain at tooth injury site

Perhaps your description has lost some details in the re-telling of the
story, but persistent pain like that (and that severe) can be traced to its
source. I assume you have a board certified oral surgeon helping with the
case?

You say " The current option is to cut some of the nerves or perhaps remove
more inflamed gum tissue" But those are not two options for the same pain
in any scenario I can think of.

A lot of discrepancies in the story coupled with a claim that percocet is
not strong enough to relieve pain often will betray a drug seeker. [Perhaps
it is just the missing data from hearing it third hand and over the
internet?]

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Amatus
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After an injury that knocked out her two upper front teeth (slightly
more complex than that), my girlfriend has had ongoing pain that
requires a high level of medication daily. Initially they had an
insert for her and the pain was only while the insert was in (and
possibly 1-2 hours after removing). The dentist eventually put in
temporary implants and now the pain is constant. While the dentist(s)
she is seeing have tried a few nerve block and even shaved away some
of the inflamed gum tissue, it has not resolved the issue and they
don't feel they've isolated the nerves.

The current option is to cut some of the nerves or perhaps remove more
inflamed gum tissue, and I'm concerned about this as it is a permanent
change to fix something that seems like it must still be wrong. She's
also been given 5 rounds of antibiotics to make sure its not an
infection.

She is at her wits end and cannot continue to endure this pain, which
is only temporarily relieved by the medication (Percoset sp? and
others). Can anyone suggest other things to look into


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<lowsix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fada142f-e418-47a6-8bf8-fbf4f4f27ab8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How so? This is a 2 year ongoing battle so I used the term chronic
although maybe inappropriately.

Lou

On Nov 26, 2:05 pm, "Amatus Cremona" <Nic...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Something does not fit the description

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Amatus



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