Chuckman
Senior Member
I started a thread about what I (and my dentist, and the ENT) thought was a blocked salivary gland (https://carolinafirearmsforum.com/index.php?threads/blocked-salivary-gland-update.94205/).
It never got better, so the ENT had me get a CT to see if there was indeed a stone. Turns out I have a dentigerous cyst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentigerous_cyst) in my maxillary sinus (30% located here, 70% in the mandible). It has been growing for years and only in the past year or so become symptomatic with facial pain, swelling, numbness along my cranial nerve V2 track, pain when I open my mouth wide (think burgers, subs, etc), and pain when I eat hard things.
Next week I meet with the OMF surgeon (oral maxo-facial) to schedule surgery; they will through the roof of the mouth or gum line where it meets the cheek cut a 'window' into the sinus and take it out. While I am asleep on the table they will have it biopsied as 20% have some malignancy. They may or may not have to remove my molars on the affected side.
Post-op is probably a week or so off and soft food. My ENT (he is a friend of mine) okayed bourbon, so that's good.
In a million years I would not have this was going to be a 'thing' and quite frankly, just want to do it and get it done and over. I am pretty stoic with medical things, high pain threshold, but I do not dig the prospect of general anesthesia or an operation. But here I am.
It never got better, so the ENT had me get a CT to see if there was indeed a stone. Turns out I have a dentigerous cyst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentigerous_cyst) in my maxillary sinus (30% located here, 70% in the mandible). It has been growing for years and only in the past year or so become symptomatic with facial pain, swelling, numbness along my cranial nerve V2 track, pain when I open my mouth wide (think burgers, subs, etc), and pain when I eat hard things.
Next week I meet with the OMF surgeon (oral maxo-facial) to schedule surgery; they will through the roof of the mouth or gum line where it meets the cheek cut a 'window' into the sinus and take it out. While I am asleep on the table they will have it biopsied as 20% have some malignancy. They may or may not have to remove my molars on the affected side.
Post-op is probably a week or so off and soft food. My ENT (he is a friend of mine) okayed bourbon, so that's good.
In a million years I would not have this was going to be a 'thing' and quite frankly, just want to do it and get it done and over. I am pretty stoic with medical things, high pain threshold, but I do not dig the prospect of general anesthesia or an operation. But here I am.
