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Is There A Possibility Of Dry Pocket At The Site Of Extraction Of Wisdom Tooth?
Hello, I had my bottom left wisdom tooth removed yesterday morning around 9:00am (it is now the next day around 4pm). I am taking painkillers which relieves the pain for about 3-4 hours, then it comes back and I take more painkillers which relieve the pain for another 3-4 hours, and so on. I am very worried about getting dry socket as I have been reading about it online. Yesterday around 1pm which was about 4 hours after wisdom tooth removal, I took a tablet for the pain, and when I swallowed it I swallowed it quite vigorously and immediately felt an intense aching throbbing pain where the tooth was removed. After the painkillers kicked in the paid faded away and now I just feel moderate pain, nothing intense. But I am worried I dislodged the blood clot when I swallowed the tablet because of the pain I felt afterwards, do you think this could have caused dry socket? I have stitches in my mouth where the tooth was pulled out, I know that you can still get dry socket though, my question is that if I do develop dry socket will the pain start after the stitches dissolve or will the pain start 3-5 days after the procedure which is the usual time it takes? My dentist also told me that there will not be a hole exposed as she stitched it up, so to me that meant that when the stitches dissolve, the hole where my tooth was will be covered by my gums and the hole will not be exposed, is that correct? Thank you.
Mon, 30 Jun 2014
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With your query, since your socket is stiched there are no chances of blood getting dislodged soon. Any extracted impacted tooth pain lasts fir 3-4 days for some 7-10 days it depends on how much bone is covered on the tooth and how difficult it became to the dentist to remove it I mean time taken coz if mire bone had to removed then it takes time and it causes more pain and swelling so wait for week and then get it checked by your dentist
With your query, since your socket is stiched there are no chances of blood getting dislodged soon. Any extracted impacted tooth pain lasts fir 3-4 days for some 7-10 days it depends on how much bone is covered on the tooth and how difficult it became to the dentist to remove it I mean time taken coz if mire bone had to removed then it takes time and it causes more pain and swelling so wait for week and then get it checked by your dentist
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Hello,
Read your query, as you have undergone extraction of wisdom tooth now you feel pain there is nothing to be worried so much dry socket have sharp pain and with bad odour in mouth , you follow post operative instruction given by your dentist , take proper course of antibiotics prescribed by your dentist that help in healing of extraction socket.
Hope this will help you.
Read your query, as you have undergone extraction of wisdom tooth now you feel pain there is nothing to be worried so much dry socket have sharp pain and with bad odour in mouth , you follow post operative instruction given by your dentist , take proper course of antibiotics prescribed by your dentist that help in healing of extraction socket.
Hope this will help you.
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