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What Is The Treatment For A Bump On The Gum?

I have had pain in my right face for about a month...My family doctor and my neurologis are treating me for trigminal neuralgia and gave me carbamzamine and yesterday prednisone..This morning I worke up and there is a bumpe un the gum above the right tooth..This is were the most pain has been and on the toohth and then in the face..I never had the bump...Who do I see? family docotr, neurologist(who treats me for MS) or the dentist?
Mon, 14 Apr 2014
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Hi. Welcome to Healthcaremagic.
I read your query. What kind of bump it is? A boil, ulcer or some solid mass? Most probably this corelates with gum abcess due to tooth infection. Is the corresponding or near by tooth carious?
I suggest you go to a dentist and get an x-ray done of that area. There could be periapical infection leading to periapical abscess or sinus. This pain can radiate upwards towards head or ear or downwards towards lower jaw and can be mistaken as Trigeminal neuralgia.
This would be confirmed only after you visit a dentist.
Hope the answer helps. Thank you!
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What Is The Treatment For A Bump On The Gum?

Hi. Welcome to Healthcaremagic. I read your query. What kind of bump it is? A boil, ulcer or some solid mass? Most probably this corelates with gum abcess due to tooth infection. Is the corresponding or near by tooth carious? I suggest you go to a dentist and get an x-ray done of that area. There could be periapical infection leading to periapical abscess or sinus. This pain can radiate upwards towards head or ear or downwards towards lower jaw and can be mistaken as Trigeminal neuralgia. This would be confirmed only after you visit a dentist. Hope the answer helps. Thank you!