Thanks everyone
Not long had a call from Marie the vet - Nena's coming round from the operation okay although she's in the very early stages of waking up. Should be picking her up later this evening, although they might push it back until tomorrow if she's struggling a bit later.
She's coming home with metacam twice a day, plus tramadol for a few days, plus we need to continue with her antibiotics which all sounds great to me
The operation took quite a bit longer than the vet thought it would, as the abscess was found to be really quite large inside her mouth which we didn't expect. She also said the tooth/tooth root was really firmly wedged in and it took a long time to get it out as it's so delicate. There was quite a lot of bone damage due to the abscess(es) but she's managed to remove everything well.
The aftercare will entail me flushing her wound 2+ times a day (not sure what with yet); and then putting manuka honey in. I'm not to remove any dead skin/scabs with tweezers, as if Nena jumps and bashes her jaw on the tweezers the jaw could easily break as it's really quite fragile right now due to how much she's had to remove. That's a bit of a relief as that was the more scary bit tbh! I need to bring her in Friday to have some local anaesthetic to give it a good scrub out if necessary.
Marie took x-rays of the other side of Nena's mouth and found that she has the same kind of problem on the other side. There's no abscess yet, but she says it's quite likely it'll happen on the other side too so I need to be vigilant with checking her weight every week or two. She said it was good that I'd noticed this abscess so soon, as it was relatively small compared to the last one. She said her teeth all look pretty good - no spurs, etc. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is with her back teeth (I'll find out more later as I'll see the x-rays) but it's not her diet that's causing molar spurs etc, which is great.
She may need the odd dental for the upper molars now as the bottom ones have gone, but obviously that's a side effect of the operation rather than diet related. So it's good in one way as she's not definitely going to have dental problems, but it also does mean she's likely to have another abscess on the other side.