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CozyMystery

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7. I had a tooth infection, and my face looked like that.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 06:22 AM
5 hrs ago

It was a molar and the infection (abscess) had gone from my gum into my face, towards my eye. I looked like I'd had a stroke and spoke like that, too. Went to the ER. Got antibiotics. Cured. My dentist, btw, told me antibiotics do not work for an infected tooth. Tooth pulled a week later. Dentist fired. The oral surgeon had a Ph.D. in microbiology and he was shocked that any dentist thought that.

Maybe that's what happened. Also, with me, absolutely no pain.

My first thought was that he looked like he'd had a stroke. My first guess, before now, was that he died from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) since he'd been on planes a lot.

The left side of his forehead looks funny - like something transparent is adhered to it.

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