macular hole causing by extracting a tooth

cathi · Silver Member Joined: 08 Nov 2000 Posts: 283

After having her tooth extracted my grandmother started complaining about a blurry vision and seeing floaters. Even though she is 60 and bad vision somehow goes along with getting old, we decided to take her to an ophthalmologist. If we didn’t, she would just go on and on about it. Anyway, after examinations, the doc determined that it was something wrong. A condition called macular hole has developed and was influencing my granny’s site. Now, I am interested if that tooth extraction had anything to do with it considering that she noticed problems following the tooth extraction procedure. Thank you

hollomon · Newbie Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

Hello! To be honest, I think this is just a coincidence. I think It is highly unlikely that development of the macular hole had anything to do with that tooth extraction. I can tell you a little bit of macular holes. Our eye is filled with a gel-like substance called vitreous. Vitreous is made of many fibers that attach to retina – a membrane that lines the inside of the eye. As years go by and we get older this vitreous gel substance withdraws from the retinal surface. If the fibers are very well adjoined, it may happen that fibers tear the retina during separation and thus create a macular hole. Macular hole cal also result from an eye trauma and other eye diseases.

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I to had teeth extracted and developed a macular hole one month later. A coincidence, I wonder. My experience took place in 2006.

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