{"id":46603,"date":"2023-11-29T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/?p=46603"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:29:59","slug":"infected-tooth-no-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/infected-tooth-no-money\/","title":{"rendered":"An infected tooth, and no money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Dr. Hall<br \/>\nMy face is swollen on my right side and the teeth inside have cavities. It&#8217;s been swollen about a month. I ate something yesterday that made it hurt and it has swollen a lot more and hurts now. I understand I need a dentist but I can&#8217;t afford one as I just got laid off my job. Any advice for me on how to care for this issue at home? I live in Orangeburg, South Carolina and I have no car or no help to a dentist but I&#8217;ve heard from friends none of the dentists around my city will work with payment. So what do I do?? My credit ain&#8217;t worth a crap either so I&#8217;m screwed but I feel something is really wrong. Really worried. Please help me somehow. Thanks. I clean for a living. I can clean anything from top to bottom. Any advice please help.<br \/>\n&#8211; April from Orangeburg, SC<\/p>\n<p>(see Dr. Hall&#8217;s answer below)<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-post-content\">\n<div class=\"post-left-column\">\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We thank our advertisers who help fund this site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Square for mns blog - 2020 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4419877247826466\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6484616093\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-right-column\">\n<p>April,<br \/>\nI get questions like this from time to time and I&#8217;ve told people to call around and ask dental offices where their local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/go-free-dental-care\/\">charity dental clinic<\/a> is. But, from the lack of response I get, I&#8217;m thinking people, maybe for shyness, don&#8217;t want to do that, or maybe they just don&#8217;t believe me. I decided to take this a step further with you and do the research to find such a clinic, because I&#8217;m worried about you. A dental infection that is starting to cause facial swelling is nothing to sit back and just watch. Five to ten people each year die from dental infections. Some people think that they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/tag\/antibiotics-for-tooth-infection\/\">just take antibiotics<\/a>. While that works for most infections, the source of a dental infection like this is <div id=\"attachment_46706\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charity-dental-clinic.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the building entrance to Family Health Centers\" width=\"330\" height=\"241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charity-dental-clinic.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/charity-dental-clinic-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family Health Centers in Orangeburg, SC<\/p><\/div>usually a tooth where the pulp tissue has died. Since your blood can&#8217;t reach the inside of a dead tooth, what you do with just antibiotics is cultivate an antibiotic-resistant infection, and it will most certainly come back and then be much more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Orangeburg has a population of only about 14,000 and it is the county seat of Orangeburg county which has about 84,000 people. But still I found a clinic that does charity dental work. It&#8217;s a non-profit called <a href=\"https:\/\/myfhc.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Family Health Centers<\/a>, and they provide a variety of health-related services, including dentistry.<\/p>\n<p>Dentists tend to be people who wanted a profession where they could help people, and many dentists will volunteer time at these clinics. In larger cities where they have a dental school, dental students will volunteer there to get more experience. They won&#8217;t do elaborate treatments like root canals or crowns, but they will place temporary fillings, maybe even some permanent fillings, and do extractions. Getting treatment for an infection like this that is starting to invade your body could save your life.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a post I wrote about a tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/death-from-tooth-infection\/\">death from an incompletely treated tooth infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dr. Hall<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a comment or anything else to add? We&#8217;d love to hear from you. Enter your comment below. Or click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/askdr.htm\">ask Dr. Hall a question.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46707\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/free-dental-care.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Family Health Centers bus that serves as their mobile dental clinic\" width=\"660\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/free-dental-care.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/free-dental-care-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They even provide a mobile dental clinic, which I imagine will travel throughout the county.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: currentColor; width: 450px; height: 80px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mynewsmile.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Dr. Hall My face is swollen on my right side and the teeth inside have cavities. It&#8217;s been swollen about a month. I ate something yesterday that made it hurt and it has swollen a lot more and hurts now. 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