Thread: Dentist clean and now in Hospital

the hygienist at my dentist aside from being a very good looker uses a modern water jet thingo to clean my teeth, so I think the chance of infection would be small.

Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

the hygienist at my dentist aside from being a very good looker uses a modern water jet thingo to clean my teeth, so I think the chance of infection would be small.

Regards Philip A

The one Heather went to also uses a hooked scraper thing.

They are required to sterilise instruments between patients, however the mouth is one of the dirtiest places in the body and trauma will always occur to the gums when abrasive and high speed tools are used.

It is most likely that some pathogen present in the mouth has entered one of the abraisions caused by the cleaning.

I'll back lotza landies,

it may also not have occured during the cleaning, if she brushed her teeth while the gums were still distressed the tooth brush could have infected her mouths.

Just got back from the hospital and she is on a drip to combat infection. It seems the verdict from senior medical staff is denistry tools have damaged tissue in the upper area, hence the infection spreading to upper portions of face , they didn't appear too happy with the work of the dentist.


I'm a bit over concerned as I had septicaemia once that could have killed me if I had left gone a bit longer.
Heather's mother was in a nursing home and developed septiceamia, it caused brain damage and she was given no hope as major organs were failing, she died a week later after induced coma.

Whatever was the cause its a real bummer and I hope she recovers well.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Whatever was the cause its a real bummer and I hope she recovers well.
Regards Philip A

Thanks Phillip.
Cheers, Mario
Facial cellulitis, an infection that is under neath the layers of the skin. google images has some pretty gross images of what can happen. It spreads, nurse said 100years ago you would probably have died ,but today they have drugs. Heather's has various different drugs pumped into her and the swelling is slowly coming down., they are allowing me to take her home tonight. Doctors said make sure we let the dentist know.

Well Heather went back to the Dentist and xrays showed that a tooth that was ok 4 months ago had died in the mean time,. Dentist could not come up with a reason why it died so quick. This was the root (parden the pun) of the infection that spread. She's undergoing a root canal. She had no feeling or sensitivity on that tooth.

Thanks for all the PMs from you guys for best wishes to her. She's on the mend after weeks of antibiotics.
Cheers, Mario