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Can an tooth infection start draining 3 weeks after extraction nasty taste coming from extraction site started clindamycin yesterday?
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Depends: If the extraction was difficult and bone was compromised, you may be in the process of rejecting a sequestrum. You may wish to revisit the surgeon who removed the tooth for an evaluation
Answered 7/7/2014
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Always a possibility: A root tip fragment, splinters, shards, spurs, chips left behind after extraction. See your dentist for x-ray and fragment removal.
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