Update on the teeth situ. Good news at last !
So I went back to the dentist and she said the extraction site was infected (oh joy) so could not perform the procedure of cutting open the site and grinding back my jaw. Instead she poked around with a sharp looking instrument and a syringe with a needle on. None of it really hurt. Any way, I had noticed after eating that the site would swell up a bit and where the hole was where the tooth was taken out a sort of bubble of skin would come up. All very strange. So basically it remained like this for a couple of weeks.
Then about four days ago I woke up and when I put my tongue where the tooth used to be I felt a sharp edge. It kinda felt like I had a razor blade in my gum. Cue a bit of poking around and out comes a reasonably large shard of something. I don't know whether it was tooth or bone but it was a good size at around 3mm long.
Since then the site has now closed completely and even though the skin over my jaw feels a little thin it hasn't caused any more problems. Woohoo ! so I would imagine that this shard of whatever it was was moving around inside the extraction site causing the irritation and swelling when I ate.
So all that remains now is to go and collect the bottom denture that she took a mould of the last time I was there
I know this is the nay thread, but I am in the yay mood right now.