{"id":64,"date":"2007-05-28T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mynewsmile.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:03:03","slug":"ive-had-an-infected-wisdom-tooth-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynewsmile.com\/blog\/ive-had-an-infected-wisdom-tooth-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve had an infected wisdom tooth socket for months"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed<\/a> last year with only one issue on my back left tooth # 17? I believe, where there was a little “pocket” where my bone should have been. this has led to a complication that my orthodontist pointed out as when she poked the gum where my wisdom tooth was, green puss started oozing out (small amount, but had a very foul smell) my breath has been mildly bad<\/a> because of this bacteria or infection of some sort, and it almost seems as if the bacteria seems to want to move to other areas of my mouth as my plaque smells of this bacteria. Do you know what kind of bacteria it is and how i can get rid of it? I have tried squeezing the bacteria out of the pocket, however it keeps reproducing itself. i regularly use listerine. Also, my dentist blew some air with a tool over that area, and they could see i suppose a small green area. help!!!
\n– Crandall in California<\/p>\n

Crandall,
\nYou need to get rid of this bacteria that are causing your tooth infection<\/a>. And what you’re doing isn’t working. And I can’t help but think this is awfully putrid smelling.
\nYour on a little bit of the right track with the air. These bacteria that nestle in sockets like this are “anerobia” bacteria – oxygen is poisonous to them. The Listerine clearly doesn’t seem to be getting the job done.
\nI’ve deal with these infections many times, and I would recommend, in your case, a heavy-duty two-pronged attack. One, you attack them right in the socket. But you need a gentle rinse of hydrogen peroxide<\/a>, like the kind that is used to help whiten teeth.\u00a0Get a bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide from the drug store, and mix it with a mild salt solution, half and half. Then you need your dentist to give you an irrigating needle so you can poke directly into the socket and gently pump in this hydrogen peroxide. Do it after every time you eat, because that’s when this hole fills up with gunk.
\nThen I’d attack them through the bloodstream with a prescription of Clindamycin, 150 mg four times per day for a good\u00a0ten days.
\nI’m pretty confident the smell and infection will be gone by then. Then back off and irrigate the socket just once a day as it fills up with tissue.<\/p>\n

You can read more about hydrogen peroxide and oral yeast infections<\/a>.
\nDr. Hall<\/p>\n

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