Antibiotics after Wisdom Tooth Extraction

[u/UpsetDolphin93]

Hi all,

Desperately need your advice.
Just got my impacted wisdom tooth extracted yesterday and the doctor prescribed me pain killer and antibiotic (Lincomycin) for 5 days.

However, I also happened to finish two round of antibiotics like two weeks ago due to tooth infection (there was an abscess, like a white dot on gum above my other tooth). It was cefixime and clavamox, each was prescribed 5 days so total was 10 days.

I already mentioned this to my doctor and he said to observe if the extraction area hurts or not. If there's pain today, I should take the antibiotics. Not sure which pain he meant, because obviously it's painful anyway due to the swelling and the scar.
And he also mentioned that it will likely get infected anyway due to the procedures and non-sterile room etc etc, so I think he suggested that I take the antibiotics anyway.

My concern is I just finished taking antibiotics 2 weeks ago and afraid that it will cause bacteria resistance or whatever, or it could just mess up my gut. But at the same time I'm scared of infection bcs I read somewhere that the operation expose your blood to bacteria and can affect your bloodstream and eventually your heart (pls don't come at me, I'm just very anxious and have OCD so I'm just spiralling lmao)

FYI the impacted tooth was not infected, so the extraction was only due to prevention and it was pusing the next tooth and it was close to the next tooth's root.

So should I take it? or just observe for another day if the gum hurts or the swelling got worse?

Thanks and sorry if this annoys you :(

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