Weird lump on my gum

[Rumpltzer]

Shove a camera in your mouth and let us have a look!

 

[Kalmah]

Originally posted by: MrMatt

Originally posted by: Kalmah
I used to be a dental assistant and may be able to provide a wild guess..

It might be a cyst. If you have an infection under one of your teeth it needs to drain.. Sometime the drainage can move to the upper edge of your gums.. or possibly into your lip. (If I'm not mistaken) It would basically be like a pimple.

I was thinking possibly a cyst too...it sure feels like one. Any chance they go away on their own?

It has been such a long time It's hard to remember.

I remember that, since it is in fact draining(assuming it is a cyst), once it is drained it should go away. (it's good that it is draining.. if it wasn't you'd probably be in for one hech of a tootheache.

As far as the effect on the tooth where the infection is located.. I'm not quite sure. I'm thinking that once it's completetly drained, the infections is gone.. and you shouldn't need to see a dentist. (but there may be more to it than what I was taught as a dental assistant..)

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: scott916
PM Mosh.

I didn't know the OP and her were a couple.

you know full well why he suggested PMing me, but it's always the same with you. you reach in your little bag of lame comments and pull out a typical middle school remark.


OP, do you have a pic by any chance? I am just curious, and if speculating, I am wondering if you have an abscessed tooth which can show up as a "gum boil" as some call it, on your gum. Call your dentist's office and tell them about it. Also, tell them the "cyst" is bothering you and you cannot sleep because of it. That is a code phrase for getting you an appt. right away. Whenever someone is unable to sleep because of dental issue they should be given an appt. that day or the next.

 

[Beattie]

I was going to say mandibular exostosis but if you can't see it, then I don't know.

 

[Nitemare]

You have teh herp?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Beattie
I was going to say mandibular exostosis but if you can't see it, then I don't know.

Yeh, but he said "top" which would be the maxilla, not the mandible.

Could be a maxillary buccal exostosis though. You may have something there. Could also be an osteoma.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Betcha it's a mucocele. Good luck though.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Betcha it's a mucocele. Good luck though.

Mucoceles are rarely found on the "top"

 

[IronWing]

As you age, you'll find more of these hard white lumps on your gums. Eventually, they will fall out and bigger ones will take their place. It is all part of growing up. We call them teeth.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
You have teh herp?

No - but I do.

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Betcha it's a mucocele. Good luck though.

Mucoceles are rarely found on the "top"

thanks for that info, I'm going to give it a couple more days (I just noticed it on sunday). I noticed tonight it's starting to look like a white spot, so maybe it's just a canker?

 

[Amused]

Cankers can start to hurt before the lesion appears and often start as a lump.

I'm betting canker

 

[AMCRambler]

Sounds like maybe a small abcess or cyst. Dentist can drain it for you.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: MrMatt

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Betcha it's a mucocele. Good luck though.

Mucoceles are rarely found on the "top"

thanks for that info, I'm going to give it a couple more days (I just noticed it on sunday). I noticed tonight it's starting to look like a white spot, so maybe it's just a canker?

is it painful? canker sores are always painful. they are actually due to a crazy autoimmune malfunction.

 

[Pepsei]

i'm guessing abscess of some sort, which produce pus that has nowhere to go (probably due to swelling sealing off any 'exit), thus, making a bump.

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: MrMatt

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Betcha it's a mucocele. Good luck though.

Mucoceles are rarely found on the "top"

thanks for that info, I'm going to give it a couple more days (I just noticed it on sunday). I noticed tonight it's starting to look like a white spot, so maybe it's just a canker?

is it painful? canker sores are always painful. they are actually due to a crazy autoimmune malfunction.

yeah it hurts. I only noticed it on sunday cause I was scratching my lip and it felt like someone was stabbing the inside of my gum when I did it.

 

[Eos]

I had one of these for 8 years on the top left. It went away after the tooth it sat over went through a root canal procedure.

It never hurt, but I always wondered what it was.

Of course I was not going to the dentist for those 8 years...

 

[jonks]

Have you had popcorn lately? Occassionaly one of those little transparent brown pieces gets wedged up and hidden between tooth and gum.

 

[Unheard]

Pop it