What are some causes for antibiotics NOT helping tooth abcess?
First off, are you sure you have an abscess and not an acute pulpitis. Acute pulpitis is an inflammed nerve, that the only real way to relieve the pain, is to start the root canal and remove the nerve tissue from the tooth. If the nerve has already died, then you get an abscess. The abscess is a growing bacterial infection within your jawbone, and indeed hurts because of the buildup of pressure. On an X-Ray you can see a dark circle at the tip of the tooth root where the infection has eaten away a little of the bone. Indeed, an abscess should respond to the antibiotic. And your doctor even told you to take the Amoxicillin 4 times a day instead of the usual 3. If an antibiotic isn’t working, then there are really only 3 reasons why. 1) The patient is not taking the antibiotic as instructed. 2)This is the wrong antibiotic for the type of bugs you have. 3)You have an Amoxicillin resistant bacterial infection. Penicillin/Amoxicillin is certainly the first antibiotic of choice for a dentist
