If you have serious pain in your jaw, you can try doing massage on the muscles in your face. (<== click here.)  But if that only helps for a short time and the pain comes back that could mean you have an abscess.

An abscess is an infection in the space around a tooth.  It needs to be treated by a dentist.  The first treatment is with an antibiotic to clear the infection and then you and your dentist will decide what to do next.

One man went to his doctor and to a dentist complaining about the pain in his face and the roof of his mouth.  They ‘couldn’t see’ anything.  The dentist ground down the surface of a molar guessing that that might have been the jaw pain problem.

But it wasn’t.

Neither doctor listened to his belief that he had an infection in his jaw.  (He could feel something was not right.)  Neither doctor prescribed antibiotics and the man was getting desperate to the point of thinking of killing himself.

Finally he found a maxillary surgeon (a jaw specialist) and that doctor immediately recognized the abscess from the x-rays and gave him antibiotics to get rid of the infection.

The relief started within several hours.  Even though it was just a small improvement it meant a lot to the man.  Within several days he felt much better.

When his infection was cleared, he was able to have the tooth treated and has no more jaw pain.

Moral of the story:

If one doctor can’t help you, don’t give up.  Keep looking for the specialist who will listen to you and who can help you get rid of your jaw pain.