Half-centimeter swelling 2cm from ear, after toothache?

Asked by rexpresso (922

) July 20th, 2010

I have gone to the dentist emergency today because of toothache. One tooth has been emptied apparently and filled with temporary plaster… and it will take some 3 more sessions just to get this tooth straight. I will need to desensitize the nerve or whatever it’s called.

The thing now is that I have pain from more teeth, and the pain even goes down to the jaw and up to the ear. And next to the ear I now have a 1cm or half cm swelling… a little round thing that pulsates, I feel blood passing there.

I don’t know if I always had this artifact near my ear… I don’t think so. What I know is that pain is concentrating there. As is in my throat ganglia…

May this be an infection? Abscess? Worth rushing to the ER to avoid losing my hearing?

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Call the online help desk at the hospital and ask them.

YARNLADY (46378

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Seems like the wise thing to do, yeah. In any case I’m doing antibiotics already… will call the hospital anyway. Thanks

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The swelling sounds like a swollen lymph node. Behind and below the ear is where some are, and they swell when you have an immune response, so yeah, it may be a sign that you have an infection, but likely not at that location.

Zaku (30353

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@Zaku thanks, great answer! I went to read more about it and i makes total sense.

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