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Scared. i think i have an abscess. what should i do right away?
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See your dentist: Schedule with your dentist so that he can identified the cause of abcess (tooth or gum) and properly treated the causes. Antimicrobial therapy will temporarily resolve the abscess; however, it will recur if the underlying cause was not addressed.
Answered 3/31/2013
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