Infection? Anyone else experience?!
Question:
Infection? Anyone else experience?
I think my back tooth had an abcess last month but since i was short on cash and it stopped hurting i didn't go to the dentist. Now my tonsils are pretty swollen up but my throat isn't too sore just scratchy and dry feeling but with a bad taste back there. I think it is infected. Anyone else have this before? And do you think it is from the tooth? Spread to my tonsils? Should I see a dentist or a doctor first?
Answers:
Sounds like it, especially since you describe a bad taste. I would go to the dentist first since that seems to be the source of the issue. It may be that once that problem is remedied, the other may go away.
If not, then the dentist will know where to send you. I had the same problem about ten years ago, and I ended up with a root canal!