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What Causes A Yellowish Abscess On Gum After Tooth Removal?

Had a lower molar removed on Thursday. Had finished course of antibiotics previous Sunday after having abscess. Still had some pain. Also high blood pressure. As dentist injected anaesthetic she hit a blood vessel resulting in me thinking I was having massive stroke. After calming me down tooth came out easy. I went home and left gauze in and bit down hard as directed. When I removed it there wasn't much blood. Blood clot had formed I felt ok. At 4 am Saturday morning woke up with vile taste in mouth and felt it seeping from tooth. Making me feel sick. Had started using corsodyl on friday and felt fine. Phoned dentist up Saturday, spoke to a dental nurse and told them I had no pain but clot had turned yellow and really vile tasting discharge with bits of brown tissue in it an gum next to extraction site had yellow patches. She said it was normal and as I had no pai n to carry on with salt rinses as much as I wanted. If i still had it on monday to nake an appointment.Still as bad today and clot seems to be disappearing. Is it normal?
Mon, 13 Jun 2016
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Hi..
Welcome to HEALTHCARE MAGIC..

I have gone through your query in detail and will try my level best to resolve it as your dentist to the best of my knowledge and experience..

As per your query, bad tasting discharge in mouth after 2 days of extraction of the molar along with yellow patches and bits of brown tissue seems to be most probably due to infection at the extraction site..
Pain can although happen for about 4 to 5 days after extraction of tooth that gradually gets reduced but in case if pain does not shows signs of reduction then it signifies infection..
Turning of clot to whitish yellow is not abnormal as when the remodelling begins there is change of clot from red to whitish colour..
But foul tasting discharge is a sign of infection causing pus formation..
I would suggest you to continue doing warm saline gargles and antiseptic mouthwash gargles..
You can also take painkiller like Ibuprofen to relieve pain..
If there is infection the then you will be advised antibiotics by your dentist..

Hope this information helps..

Regards.
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What Causes A Yellowish Abscess On Gum After Tooth Removal?

Hi.. Welcome to HEALTHCARE MAGIC.. I have gone through your query in detail and will try my level best to resolve it as your dentist to the best of my knowledge and experience.. As per your query, bad tasting discharge in mouth after 2 days of extraction of the molar along with yellow patches and bits of brown tissue seems to be most probably due to infection at the extraction site.. Pain can although happen for about 4 to 5 days after extraction of tooth that gradually gets reduced but in case if pain does not shows signs of reduction then it signifies infection.. Turning of clot to whitish yellow is not abnormal as when the remodelling begins there is change of clot from red to whitish colour.. But foul tasting discharge is a sign of infection causing pus formation.. I would suggest you to continue doing warm saline gargles and antiseptic mouthwash gargles.. You can also take painkiller like Ibuprofen to relieve pain.. If there is infection the then you will be advised antibiotics by your dentist.. Hope this information helps.. Regards.