Any Dentists On Here Please That Can Help Me With A Question?

[lilacben]

Our 7 year old grandson has had an abscess under one of his back double teeth,
The dentist drilled through the tooth, without any painkiller. and burst the abscess. My daughter said he was having trouble to stop it bleeding. The thing is my poor little grandson was screaming in pain but the dentist turned nasty with him. Last week he had to go back and this time the dentist plugged the hole with an antibiotics paste. And today he drilled it again before filling it. My daughter said he was crying again and was in a lot of pain. This really doesn't sound right to me.? my daughter also said the dentist was puzzled why it was hurting him. Is this normal.?

[lilacben]

Thankyou sqad, well that would explain it then I suppose; But they dont do that with adult teeth do they,? I thought they give u antibiotics first then drill. After the tablets have got rid of it.? Hope J9PUR comes on and sees this I would really like an expert answer.
desktop, Sorry about your trouble also. But I had read somewhere that they have to do that to make the games heal and shape with the dentures. I can remember my poor mum being in agony when she had hers fitted after having the other ones out.! Not nice. xxx

[Connemmara]

Lilac - I still hope you get your grandson to a different dentist that has been recommended - some dentists will agree with others to get rid of you. I could write a book a best seller about the dentists I attended through my life - and I still need dental treatment for a long time but I suffer because of the dreaded dentist - none of them ever built up my confidence.

[albaqwerty]

Lilac, change dentists. Both your grandsons and yours.
They both sound as awful as each other.

A young alba was nervous about seeing the dentist, the one he saw was great, when he moved on, the replacement couldn't haven't cared less.

[lilacben]

Connemmara, many thanks. Yes if it was my choice I would have put in a complaint already about this dentist. Just hope my daughter sees someone else next time. Saying that she did mention they are always changing dentists in that practise.??? wonder why?? Also they are all Polish or from somewhere else and do not speak good english.

[SlackAlice]

I'd change the dentist as well. There should be no pain with dentistry, especially for children, other than the initial injections.

When I was a young child I had like many others a poor experience with dentists. I didn't go back to see another dentist until I was 30yrs old and only then because I was desperate.

I now have a dentist that understands that I have a broad yellow stripe down my back and my middle name is coward where dentistry is concerned. She is absolutely worth her weight in gold in my mind.

[lilacben]

Have you read what sqad had to say.? He says that it wouldnt be safe to give a injection for the reason of spreading into the blood stream. So I really do not know what to think now. I have also read on the internet that there seems to be an awful lot of young children having bad teeth from a young age these days. Which really shocked me. Had it been my other daughters children I would have said yes because they are always eating sweets whereas my other daughter is very strict on sweets and non of them are allowed them very often.

[Sqad]

The treatment of an abscess....anywhere in the body.....is drainage +antibiotics.
I cannot see a cogent reason for questioning the action of the dentist.

[ummmm]

When I was a kid I had an abscess under my back teeth and was dealt with in hospital. I was kept in for 5 days, would that be why? To make sure it hadn't spread?

[Connemmara]

sqad the cogent answer to that is the child should not have suffered any funky pain. please.

[Sqad]

ummmm....;-) no idea as your case history is a bit "scanty."

[Connemmara]

Alba I also agree with you - Lilac should change hers and her grandsons - get away from the practice altogether - find another practice - polish, foreign - get out there quick. Sorry sqad that is my opinion.

[Connemmara]

Slack Alice - you have one yellow stripe down your back - regarding dentists - my body is covered in yellow stripes. When I get into the chair and then I start to shake and shake and shake from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.

Wish I had your dentist

[J9PUR]

I'm still 'knocking about' - it seems as though you have had many 'expert' dignoses already though.

[jno]

are any of them any good, though?

[woofgang]

I agree that the child shouldn't have been put through the pain but IIRC an infection around the tooth means that the injected anaesthetic won't work. The couple of times that i have had infections like that i have been given antibiotics and pain relief by the dentist and told to return for treatment once the infection has subsided.

yup, I remembered right
http://www.dentalfearcentral.org/fears/not-numb/#hottooth

[J9PUR]

Without speculating what may or may not have happened here, general prinicples are:
1) Treatment of an acute dental abscess is by drainage, pulp removal or extraction
2) There is NO justification for antiobitic therapy unless a patient has an elevated temperature or signs of systemic spread of infection
3) A non-vital abscessed deciduous (baby) tooth can normally be opened up without a local anaesthetic.

[jno]

fair enough, J9PUR, but what do you do when a child is screaming with pain? Any analgesia possible?

As others have said that sort of things puts kids off going to the dentist (it did me for several years too), which is in nobody's interests.

[ummmm]

I had mine extracted in hospital under general anaesthetic. I assumed that's how they all got dealt with :-/

[society]

I think this child was treated horrible by the dentist. I'm sure the dentist would not treat an adult in this manner. Poor child... tut tut

[woofgang]

not sure who you are J9 but that's not what my dentist does or would do, especially not to a child. The couple of times in the last few years when I have had dental infections, any attempt to remove or drain the tooth without dealing with the infection first would have been much more painful for the dentist than for me!!