Originally Posted by Doc Alan
I sympathise, Arthur, and wish you a full recovery with pain relief as soon as possible.
As I explained to Slip in a previous thread, the usual way to cure a dental abscess is by the dentist or dental surgeon cutting into it to drain away the pus ( fluid containing the bacteria / bugs ). Indeed, antibiotics may not always be needed for dental abscesses unless there are complications ( like local spread ). If they were needed, amoxicillin ( a type of penicillin ), as prescribed in your case, is appropriate.
Hopefully the antibiotics will “ kick in “, as you say ...
Get well soon!
Thanks too, for your sympathy, Alan. Alas my dentist didn't offer to drain the abscess ... preferring instead to prescribe antibiotics - which, frankly, aren't helping a great deal to relieve the almost constant dull ache - when I wish to God he'd just yanked the tooth out in the first place. Indeed, the Amoxicillin capsules proved so ineffective that I was forced to walk 3/4 of a mile each way to the 24-hr Tesco store in order to replenish my stock of painkillers late last night. Oddly enough, doing this did bring a modicum of relief ... even if it was
short-lived.
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