Yes, you have a good sense of how serious an infection in the mouth can be, good for you.
If he's on antibiotics there's a good chance he's doing okay. I would absolutely take him back to the dentist tomorrow of it's not gone down some. They can numb it and drill a hole for the infection to drain. That's what they did to me when I was a teen and had an abscess. It was so bad I looked like a monkey, my whole upper lip was swollen out to my nose.
My parents told me I was faking a tooth ache until I went to church looking like that and they called my parents and told them I needed to go to a dentist right away. They took me the next day and he drilled a hole in the roof of my mouth into the abscess so it could drain. I puked for days. It was awful. But I lived. I think I had just a few hours before it would have entered my blood stream and gone to my brain or heart and killed me.
The antibiotics could be the wrong one, can you call your pharmacist and ask them if the one the dentist is using is the best for this type of infection?
I'm glad you got the tooth pulled.
One thing, why wasn't this "cavity" already taken care of? Not to be mean but you seemed to know it was a bad tooth so you must have known it was going to get infected.
This post should educate other moms. If your child has a cavity it is likely going to get infected. Take your kids to the dentist so you can stay on top of their dental care.
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