Hello! First off, I am a 20 year old college student. On Friday morning I woke up with a small oval shaped bump behind my two front teeth . I have a small gap between those two teeth and in between the gap is swollen as well as the top of the front of my teeth. It has not gotten any better and this evening I noticed it seems to be getting worse. The small space between my two front teeth is being filled with more of the gum and I m really started to get concerned. I didn t eat anything that scratched my gums or burned them. My roommates have said this has happened to them in the past and it just goes away, but I m very concerned as this has never happened to me. I plan on visiting our health center in the morning and eventually a dentist in town but I would like a kind of heads up as to what this might be. Please help! Thank you!
Hi, Welcome to the forum, Bump in between the front teeth can be a gingival or a periodontal abscess. There could be local plague and calculus deposition in the region causing irritation in the region leading to swelling, I would suggest you to get a complete mouth scaling and polishing done. This could also be due to presence of infection in the surrounding teeth spreading its abscess in the periapical region leading to pain and swelling, for this you need to get an x-ray done, if the tooth is infected can be treated using root canal treatment, Chat Doctor. At home take lukewarm saline and antiseptic mouthwash rinses. Hope you find this as helpful, Regards.