No, I haven't when a dental was so recently done. Maybe there just was a fast developing cavity too small to see at dental and just went wild cooking up an infection once it got going good. Poor little thing. My first Yorkie had an abscessed tooth through the skin which is how I found out about Yorkie predisposition to dental disease! I felt so bad not knowing about his tooth problems for how ever long he'd had that thing until it abscessed! And he had to have another 2 or 3 teeth extracted at the same time as the abscessed one plus a dental and regular dentals after that, of course. I felt like a dog letting him suffer because I didn't know about this problem. Still, even people have clear dental exams & can be back in the dental chair in no time with a bad, bad tooth so it must be fairly common! I had a knot in my neck mid-November, a few days before hip surgery, saw two dentists(a second opinion) and had x-rays and on 12-23-11, I was having an emergency root canal in a tooth above where the knot had been but that both dentists had x-rayed and "cleared" just over a month before!!! I guess it can happen with dogs, too.
Poor baby, I'm sure little Scrappington will be feeling much, much better soon & Tibbe & I send our hugs and best wishes for a fast and speedy recovery.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |