question: I have impacted wisdom teeth, my lower pair have only once before caused my gums to swell by my back molars. Yesterday I woke up with slight fever like body aches and a pain in the left side of my head and jaw. When I looked in the mirror the gums behind my lower left molar were swollen, through the day the swelling increased to the extent it enveloped half of my molar and I could not eat or close my jaw without "chewing" on my gums. That evening I used a rubber dental probe to poke around my molar and as I pressed a brownish discharge was released all around my molar. I washed the area thoroughly with mouthwash and the next morning the swelling was 90% gone still sore though