About 6-7 weeks ago I went to the urgent care with a horrible right ear infection

[Warpy]

15. Decay can cause a lot of problems

Favoring that side of your jaw can irritate the joint between your upper and lower jaw and that can feel like ear pain.

Please go to UC or even an ER and have them do a blood count to see if you are fighting a bacterial infection. If you are, you will need antibiotics and you might be on them for some time. Expired antibiotics won't hurt you but the potency declines rapidly, so they won't help you much.

Letting it go can result in the infection spreading places you really, really don't want it, like your brain and the valves in your heart.

Nothing is worse than a mouthful of teeth that hurt and teeth that are root canaled and have crowns can still rot.

Dentures suck but not nearly as much as bad teeth do. Good luck.