post implant pain - 3 weeks

sundancer · medicine forum beginner Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

I had an implant done on my lower left jaw 19 days ago. The dentist
stated that everything went very smoothly and I felt fine. The
following morning I got up and exercised vigorously. Little did I know
what a mistake this was. The area around the implant swelled quite a
bit. It was Friday and I was going out of town for three days. By
Saturday morning I was in significant pain but taking 800mg doses of
Advil to mask the symptoms. I went back to the dentist on Tuesday. He
told me I was crazy for having exercised but the damage was done. I
was told the tissue had blanched and they swabbed an iodine solution to
the area almost daily for a week. No relief from the pain but the
tissue looked better. I have been on several antibiotics (currently
clindamycin) . On the 15th day I went to a periodontist and he found
no bad teeth. It is now 19 days since the implant and I basically have
as much pain as I did on the 3rd day. I feel as if I have an abcessed
tooth.

Any ideas?

JimSocal · medicine forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 224

On 4 Jul 2006 15:21:39 -0700, "sundancer" <sun94dancer@gmail.com>
wrote:

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