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How To Treat Swelling And Pain On Right Side Of The Face After An Injury?

I fell Mothers Day and hit right side of my face I wear glasses and my cheek bone badly brusied and my cheek bone was swollen the swelling went down but I have lump under the skin on my cheek bone right below the corner of my eye. I am 74 yrs old will this go away and is there anything I can do to speed things along. Still have brusing on my cheek where my glasses were, its looking better just wondered about the lump. Thank you
Fri, 10 Jun 2016
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Hi..
Welcome to HEALTHCARE MAGIC..

I have gone through your query and can understand your concerns..

As per your complain swollen cheek with cheek bone badly bruising due to being hit seems to be due to traumatic injury to the soft tissues leading to ruptured blood vessels and causing accumulation of blood into the soft tissues and it is the cause for bruising and there is also hematoma formation..
Hematoma is a harmless tumor like mass formed due to spillage of blood from ruptured blood vessels leading to accumulation of blood into the soft tissues forming a lump..

At times the hematoma gets localized and encapsulated and forms a firm hard lump that can take a long time, say a few months to resolve, but it generally tend to resolve itself..

The lump that you are having on the face is probably due to hematoma formation

As of now you should do alternate warm and cool compresses over the lump..
Apply Heparin gel as it help in faster disintegration of the hematoma..
You can apply numbing gel if there is pain..

Consult an Oral Surgeon and get evaluated and he can do an x ray to rule out for any bony fractures of cheek bones that is Zygomatic bone as they are prominent and can get fractured due to trauma..

Hope this information helps..

Thanks and regards.
Dr.Honey Nandwani Arora.
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How To Treat Swelling And Pain On Right Side Of The Face After An Injury?

Hi.. Welcome to HEALTHCARE MAGIC.. I have gone through your query and can understand your concerns.. As per your complain swollen cheek with cheek bone badly bruising due to being hit seems to be due to traumatic injury to the soft tissues leading to ruptured blood vessels and causing accumulation of blood into the soft tissues and it is the cause for bruising and there is also hematoma formation.. Hematoma is a harmless tumor like mass formed due to spillage of blood from ruptured blood vessels leading to accumulation of blood into the soft tissues forming a lump.. At times the hematoma gets localized and encapsulated and forms a firm hard lump that can take a long time, say a few months to resolve, but it generally tend to resolve itself.. The lump that you are having on the face is probably due to hematoma formation As of now you should do alternate warm and cool compresses over the lump.. Apply Heparin gel as it help in faster disintegration of the hematoma.. You can apply numbing gel if there is pain.. Consult an Oral Surgeon and get evaluated and he can do an x ray to rule out for any bony fractures of cheek bones that is Zygomatic bone as they are prominent and can get fractured due to trauma.. Hope this information helps.. Thanks and regards. Dr.Honey Nandwani Arora.