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Listerine may have worked for me!!
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Not sure if it was the Listerine, but after a week of rinsing my mouth with Listerine after every meal, I woke up one morning and my mucocele was barely there!! It could be that two months passed and it ran its course but I do wonder whether the Listerine did something. I had my mucocele for two months. it would get smaller and bigger. a lot of times, certain things such as soda, sugar, orange juice would irritate it and it would get bigger. so big that it would affect when I spoke and people could definitely see it when i opened my mouth. I tried the salt treatment but it irritated it even more. then i tried the listerine treatment and it went away. i do have to mention that while i was eating some granola a sharper piece of granola pricked a small hole in my mucocele and it started to drain. however, my mucocele did get pricked before and drained but it always returned. however, when this happened the same week i was rinsing with listerine, it went away. I went to an oral surgeon and of course, he said it will never go away on its own and you'll have to have surgery in order to get rid of it. i'm so glad i waited it out. i can still feel a very tiny bump on my lower lip but it's not noticeable to anyone and i forget it's even there. again, not sure if it was the listerine but i definitely recommend trying it and saying a little prayer that it works!
I definitely think that the combination of being drained and doing the rinse is what did it. I wouldn't want to recommend popping it to anyone since I'm wary of telling people to risk an infection. But when I did the salt rinses, mine was popped. The salt or listerine would help clean it though. With one of my mucoceles it popped without my help but with another I used a needle that I sterilized with rubbing alcohol and I cleaned my mouth out before popping it.
Also, be sure and keep up the rinses until all the whitened (dead?) skin is gone otherwise it will toughen again, fill with fluid and toughen the surrounding area causing your mucocele to grow again. You might also run into a roadblock if the whitened skin seals off again trapping fluid and blocking your rinse treatment. Both situations occurred in my experience and I then took a needle to it and kept up the rinses. Again if your gut says you'll risk an infection and complications then don't do it - maybe you can find a doctor who will do this for you.
Also, be sure and keep up the rinses until all the whitened (dead?) skin is gone otherwise it will toughen again, fill with fluid and toughen the surrounding area causing your mucocele to grow again. You might also run into a roadblock if the whitened skin seals off again trapping fluid and blocking your rinse treatment. Both situations occurred in my experience and I then took a needle to it and kept up the rinses. Again if your gut says you'll risk an infection and complications then don't do it - maybe you can find a doctor who will do this for you.
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