Dr Stephen Pitt is featured in the daily mail and gives advice on tooth grinding
One afternoon in October last year, Sue Downes’ upper gum started to swell, causing a dull throbbing pain that was impervious to paracetamol. The swelling eventually spread to the entire left side of her face until, as Sue says, she looked like the elephant man.
The agony was so great that at 2am the next morning Sue drove to A&E at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, where she was diagnosed with an abscess and prescribed antibiotics.
