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What Causes A White Scar On The Inner Cheek Along The Jaw Line?

I have what I m sure is some kind of abscess along the bottom of my gums near my cheek, and my bottom wisdom teeth are impacted, and the gums have been ripped beyond repair over those wisdom teeth. A flap of my gum seems to be attached to my cheek and there s a white line that looks like a scar coming from the gum across my inner cheek, what could that be? My cheek stretching from the swelling?
Thu, 28 Jul 2016
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Brief answer: PERICORONITIS.

Hi..
Can understand your concern..

As per your complain and description of your symptoms it seems that you have infection in the gum flap that covers your impacted wisdom tooth and the infection occurs due to lodgement of food debris in between the gum flap and wisdom tooth leading to bacterial growth causing inflammation in that area leading to pain and swelling as well as other symptoms you described and the condition is known as PERICORONITIS

The inflammation can also occur due to trauma to the flap caused by the biting of the flap by the upper teeth.

In case you have impacted teeth the best and permanent treatment is to get them extracted as they will never erupt by themselves and can cause recurrent episodes of the similar symptoms.

Other thing what you can do if you do not wish to get your tooth removed is to get the gum flap covering the wisdom tooth excised, it is a small procedure known as Operculectomy in which the portion of gum flap covering the wisdom tooth is removed under local anaesthesia.

In order to relieve the immediate symptoms do warm saline gargles.

For relief from pain and inflammation Ibuprofen can be taken twice daily.

Antibiotics like amoxicillin 500mg thrice daily can help in reducing infection.

Use of antimicrobial mouthwash to gargle can be relieving.

Hope your query is solved..

Thanks and regards..
Dr.Honey Nandwani Arora.
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What Causes A White Scar On The Inner Cheek Along The Jaw Line?

Brief answer: PERICORONITIS. Hi.. Can understand your concern.. As per your complain and description of your symptoms it seems that you have infection in the gum flap that covers your impacted wisdom tooth and the infection occurs due to lodgement of food debris in between the gum flap and wisdom tooth leading to bacterial growth causing inflammation in that area leading to pain and swelling as well as other symptoms you described and the condition is known as PERICORONITIS The inflammation can also occur due to trauma to the flap caused by the biting of the flap by the upper teeth. In case you have impacted teeth the best and permanent treatment is to get them extracted as they will never erupt by themselves and can cause recurrent episodes of the similar symptoms. Other thing what you can do if you do not wish to get your tooth removed is to get the gum flap covering the wisdom tooth excised, it is a small procedure known as Operculectomy in which the portion of gum flap covering the wisdom tooth is removed under local anaesthesia. In order to relieve the immediate symptoms do warm saline gargles. For relief from pain and inflammation Ibuprofen can be taken twice daily. Antibiotics like amoxicillin 500mg thrice daily can help in reducing infection. Use of antimicrobial mouthwash to gargle can be relieving. Hope your query is solved.. Thanks and regards.. Dr.Honey Nandwani Arora.