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How Can Gum Lumps Causing A Disappearing Tooth Be Treated?
hi, i noticed that my tooth on my right side of my mouth had been slowly disappearing, and just today i felt a kind of lump-ish, i don't know if it's a lump or what, but i felt it at the top of my gums where my two front teeth are my the right hand side as well, i'm freaked out. what could this be?
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Mon, 6 Oct 2014
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Thank you for your query,
From what I could make out from the symptoms written above is that you have decaying tooth structure in your mouth with surrounding gums closing the tooth structure.
The tooth on your right side can be non vital and carious exposed leading to fracturing of the tooth structure. This leads to erosion of the tooth structure below the gum line and the adjacent gums start covering it and sometimes leading to infection and swelling.
Best advice is to consult you Dentist and get it treated.
From what I could make out from the symptoms written above is that you have decaying tooth structure in your mouth with surrounding gums closing the tooth structure.
The tooth on your right side can be non vital and carious exposed leading to fracturing of the tooth structure. This leads to erosion of the tooth structure below the gum line and the adjacent gums start covering it and sometimes leading to infection and swelling.
Best advice is to consult you Dentist and get it treated.
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