Hello Dr. Chakraborty,I just had an upper molar, I think it was # 32?, removed. It was decayed. The roots were a real job for the dentist but after about 1 hr & 20 minutes later everything was out and in were a couple of stitches. I know there will be pain. But, this pain has the whole right side of my face and head  real painful. My right eye hurts to open. It feels like I have a bad sinus infectionand a right ear infection along with the pain in my mouth( upper right side).Im on Clindamycin-1 every 6 hrs for 7 days. I have done everything on the post op list. Years ago due to an accident / injury /  timing I had to have my impacted wisdom teeth and also 5 molars out- 9 total. that was tons of fun. This 1 single tooth extraction is more painful. Is it normal to feel this much discomfort / pain. Could any nerve been damaged that sends signals to the right side of my face head?
Hello, Welcome to Chat Doctor forum. The extraction of a molar tooth sometimes become very difficult due to a lot of reasons, for example tooth root fused to the surrounding bone, or the tooth root is curved or broken crown of a badly decayed tooth etc. In such conditions some amount of bone needs to be removed, or the root portion may need to be separated by Chat Doctor.  Yeah, this kind of procedure may take long time; even more than an hour, while uncomplicated molars can be extracted within a minute. When the bone is injured or 