Shoreline

Hey Linda, What's up? I had osteo myolitis SP? severe bone infection following a tooth extraction that spread into my jaw, I was hopitalized because oral AntiB's rarely touch OM. I spent a week in-patient then they put in a pick line that runs from your elbow to your heart to prevent damage to the veins from potent antiB's.

I had to give myself a bag of clyndomyacin 3 times a day for an additional month once I came home. Then had surgery 3 times to remove damaged bone and to reopen my mouth, I ended up with a version of lock jaw where I couldn't open my mouth more than 10mm. The massiter muscle and few others muscles had to be released to open my jaw and then I slowly cranked my mouth back open with a stack of toungue depressors held with a rubber band. I would slowly slip one depressor in after another untill I was propped open with a stack of 20 depressors which opened my mouth to about 40mm which is slightly smaller than average. But still functional. The whole thing was a nightmare that could have been prevented if the oral surgeon had prescribed antibiotics at any of the 5 follow up visits, he kept calling the problem a dry socket and trauma.

I finally went back to the dentist and ask him to Xray my jaw because I was sure it was broken, he said it wasn't broken but you have a heck of an infection. He admitted me and turned me over to an infectious disease doc.

What's going on?
Dave