The American Dental Association recommends to notify your doctor or dentist right away if these symptoms arise. They also recomment in telling your dentist if you are taking bisphosphonate medications before any dental work is performed. Symptoms include: pain, swelling, gum infections, drainage, jaw infections, loose teeth, jaw numbness, and exposed bone.
It is osteonocrosis of the jaw - a medical condition that cause the death of jaw bone tissue and known as "dead jaw" and "fossy jaw". And people who have been taking the osteoporosis medication - Fosamax - may have this problem because it has been linked to this.
Merck are the manufacturors and thay had sales of $3.2 billion just in 2005. Thaat is over 22 million prescriptions in the U.S alone, according to IMS Health. Apparently this drug blocks the normal reproduction of bone cells. You may need a fosamax lawyer