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From my understanding, yes you can. From what I've heard and read a lot of dentist actually prescribe it for tooth infections. I don't think it's as effective as Penicillin, Amoxicillin, or Clindamycin though., but not 100% on that. From my experience Penicillin and Clindamycin have worked extremely well on very bad tooth infections.

Also, try about 400mg ibuprofen every 8hrs or so along with the cephalexin. If that doesn't help and it doesn't upset your stomach or anything you can try up to 600-800mg of ibuprofen, but it's safer and generally more tolerated around 400mg.

Also Cephalexin is usually prescribed, 3x a day.

But I would recommend you just call your dentist and/or pharmacist, or whoever your prescribing Dr. is. If you just want a second opinion on his/her treatment it's usually a better and easier option to just call a trusted pharmacy or another dentist.

Good luck!

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