<p>My daughter is in Spain and has been texting for the past week that her left jaw is in pain. She had a wisdom tooth removed at the end of August in the area that is in pain. She is having a hard time sleeping (advil is no longer helping) and will finally tell the program director about it tomorrow.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with dental work in Spain? Should I feel as panicked as I do? I feel completely helpless…</p>
<p>For what it’s worth…my H, age 52, just had a wisdom tooth out @a month ago. Same situation as your D. He went to the dentist who had extracted the tooth and dentist said it’s not infected and that pain several weeks later just means it’s taking longer to heal. Advil also did not work for my H and he took heavier pain pills just at night time. That did the trick. Maybe see if she can get Oxycodone, also known as Percocet. He also took Ibuprofin to lessen the swelling. It all helped eventually. Good luck…</p>
<p>Dry socket??</p>
<p>Be concerned, but not panicked. It’s a tooth…not a bad car accident or some horrible illness. It will need attention (not many things worse than tooth pain in terms of discomfort), but it usually is not life threatening.</p>
<p>I know it’s hard being far away from a child when they are not well…had a child dealing with pneumonia at school as a freshman, and I’m still not comfortable with it as she has not totally recovered, so I feel your pain.</p>
<p>If she starts running a fever-time to get treatment immediately. It should be fine. People in Europe get sick and recover every day. She will likely be just fine as long as she gets this attended to.</p>
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<p>Europe? They’ll find a dentist and she’ll be fine.</p>
<p>It’s not likely they’ll call upon the Inquisition for tools…</p>
<p>There are dental clinics all over in the major cities in Spain and all she has to do is walk into one and let them know what’s going on. She’ll have to pay out of pocket, but I’m fairly sure that the cost will be a lot less than it would be here.
Pharmacies in Spain provide different services than ours, and the Pharmacists are trained to give medical advice and some conduct basic exams; they also can provide some much stronger over the counter pain meds than are allowed in the US. I assume that your D has a working knowledge of Spanish, so she should be able to make her needs known, and medical care in urban centers in Spain is very good.
Whatever you do, do not attempt to send her any meds by mail! That’s not allowed and even simple things like Advil will be seized if found.
Please let us know how she is! And have you gotten the bill for all of those texts yet?!!</p>
<p>I second dry socket. Been there.</p>
<p>Probably not a dry socket. Highest risk is 3-5 days after extraction, not a month.</p>
<p>Could be she has some food stuck in the hole; does she have an irrigating syringe? Or she’s chewing too much on that area and it has become sore. </p>
<p>Have her see a dentist for an evaluation; can’t make a diagnosis online.</p>
<p>Haven’t had a kid with a dental problem, but I have gotten texts/phone calls describing various medical problems (and one real emergency) from : Mexico, Holland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. All you can do is tell them to see the proper dr or dentist. I mean what else can you do? If they are old enough to go abroad, they need to be able to follow up on their health care. The program director should arrange for her to receive the proper treatment.</p>
<p>Its hard when they are so far away. When I was younger and overseas, I got sick too, but since we didn’t have the instant messaging technology we have today, I just had to deal with it. I think that made me more self-sufficient then my own kids. </p>
<p>I am sure Spain has proper dentists. Good luck, and try not to worry too much! Let us know.</p>
<p>My daughter was in Costa Rica in the jungle doing research when I got a satellite call telling me she had a severe ear infection. They don’t have roads into the jungle, just trails, so they would have to fly her out. However it was also raining too hard to know when that would be.
Ultimately she tried home remedies, and saw a dr when they got out. Gotta love that universal health care. :)</p>
<p>If Op’s daughter is just now telling the program director, perhaps the pain is more intermittent and caused by something other than dry socket.</p>
<p>Thank you for all of your support and advice. The area has been hurting her on and off for over one week. Beginning yesterday morning, the pain has been constant and excruciating. She spoke with a pharmacist, and will see the Director’s dentist tomorrow at 2:00pm. </p>
<p>This child never gets things in small ways that just go away. That is where my concern stems from.</p>
<p>I’ll let you know what happens tomorrow! Thanks again!</p>
<p>My D had wisdom teeth removed at Thanksgiving last year with no real issues, on Christmas Eve she woke in pain in the tooth area and slight fever. She was fighting a cold and the dentist figured an infection got in the site. After some antibiotics she was as good as new. Strange that it was a month later. Hope all works out.</p>
<p>Murmur-- </p>
<p>Thank you so much. I am hoping that a course of antibiotics will take care of it, and that it isn’t a nearby tooth!</p>
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<p>Or maybe not, I heard they speak a foreign language and fight bulls.</p>
<p>The text I got from my son in Germany was a picture of his tonsils! Gotta love technology.They looked horrible. I made the diagnosis of “go to a hospital”. It took 80 euros and a little over an hour to be registered, seen and diagnosed and get antibiotics. Done.</p>
<p>2bizee-- Glad to know that your son is doing better!</p>
<p>Texts from this morning:
“Hi. So I have an infection. They did an x-ray and gave me antibiotics and pain med but she needs to do a panoramic x-ray so I have to get that done tomorrow and I go back on Thursday afternoon. The woman I saw was an oral surgeon, same kind as Dr.S. The office was very nice and clean.”</p>
<p>I am not sure why she needs a panoramic x-ray, but it sounds like she is in good hands!</p>
<p>The same thing happened to my D a month after she got her wisdom teeth removed. She went to a dentist in her small college town (stateside) and they said it was a secondary infection. They gave her antibiotics and also drained the tooth (or the hole where the tooth had been).
Also, Spain has very good dental care. We had an exchange student from Spain this summer whose dad is a dentist/oral surgeon. He told us that dentists have to go to regular med school before they specialize in dentistry. Maybe they need a panoramic x-ray to see if the infection has spread.</p>