It won’t get better on its own. Go to a Dentist straight away, whereupon they may well give you a prescription for antibiotics to take the swelling and infection down before they can operate. My dad was a Dentist, we used to get people turning up at the door like that all the time. A few years ago I ignored a broken finger. When I eventually went to the Doc, then hospital and told them everything tastes weird too they immediately injected me with antibiotics. Apparently I would have been dead by the morning from septicaemia if I’d left it any longer. One of the early signs of septicaemia is it effects your taste buds.
The one I had on the other side did get better by itself, but this one is worse. I don’t feel nauseous or dizzy today and it’s not as painful, but my face is still very swollen. I’ll call the dentist when they open at 9. That info about septicaemia making you lose your sense of taste is interesting. I didn’t know that.
I didn’t until they told me, so watch out for it. Generally speaking if it gets better it’s only for a while and then it comes back…. Worse!
I had a tooth removed still with the abcess present. Found later that pain relief doesn't work in that case, so it was absolute agony as it was pulled. Swallowed all sorts of horrible stuff then my jaw locked. Pain was so bad it put me off dentists for a couple of decades. Get it sorted ASAP
