Swollen gums?!
Question: at first i thought it might have been a canker sore, but it has gotten increasingly larger over the day. the gums in the very back of my mouth around the last molar in the top, left side of my mouth has swollen up. It is very painful and i tried the saltwater thing and it didnt work. Im still not entirely sure if its a canker sore or not, but it is large and red. What can i do to make the pain go away? If anything, what can i do to make the, "sore" completely go away?
Answers: at first i thought it might have been a canker sore, but it has gotten increasingly larger over the day. the gums in the very back of my mouth around the last molar in the top, left side of my mouth has swollen up. It is very painful and i tried the saltwater thing and it didnt work. Im still not entirely sure if its a canker sore or not, but it is large and red. What can i do to make the pain go away? If anything, what can i do to make the, "sore" completely go away?
That has happened to me on a few occasions. It has happened on the bottom and top of my mouth along the gum line, and it was swollen, red, painful, and lasted only a couple of days. I have learned that it is a piece of food that got stuck in the pocket along a tooth that caused it. Not all food will do it, but sometimes something such as a shell of a popcorn kernel will get stuck, and cause inflamation. It will go away, and there is nothing you can do about it, but wait it out.
if there is a sore on the gum, it means your upper last molar is resting on that gum, it could be self inflicted by biting your own gum, you need some anti biotics & pain killers & cut that gum off removal or the last two molars, upper & lower.
maybe one of ur teeth could be abcessed? if it is it would need a root canal.
It sounds like your gums are swollen from food being stuck between your tooth and gum. try flossing to see if you can get anything out and if you cant go see a dentist.
I had a similar problem when food got stuck between a filling and my gums and had to have the filing replaced.