thread: Very Swollen Gum with 1yr molar...

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    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Feb 2006
    melbourne
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    its normal but not that common! i cant for the life of me remember what the purple lump is called though... it will come to me.
    it will be fine and will go away when the tooth comes through, just keep up the pain relief

    ETA its an eruption cyst..
    heres some infor for you

    it is due to the gums becoming thin in front of the erupting tooth and some minor trauma causing a bruise in that area. Often it doesn't take much of a trauma to do this, just normal eating or biting on a toy. It does not hurt. Just like a bruise, it will tend to go away on it's own once the new tooth erupts
    Last edited by Olive; December 30th, 2010 at 12:08 PM.