Dentist visit - my own

[Hopeny]

I'm just posting this strange experience after a dental visit, which convinced me more than I was before that i need to make sure my kids have a dose of abx before any dental cleaning or work. I had a regular cleaning yesterday, fairly short and nothing major at all, I am a little bit under the weather. A couple of hours later my gums were in massive pain, I started having neck pain and had a major headache. I was taking high doses of advil all day and it was not working at all. I was starting to feel like I needed to call the dentist for a painkiller when it dawned on me that maybe it was some type of bacterial reaction, it did sort of feel like the kind of hurt when a cut gets infected. So I took augmentin I had leftover from an old prescription and about 1.5 hours later, all the pain was totally gone/stayed gone. I'm not sure what to make of it but really seems some type of infection and not soreness or that should have stayed.