What's this hole?!
Question: I just got my wisdom teeth removed a week ago and one of the spots where they removed the tooth, theres a hole. Not a blood clot, but a hole. It hurts but it's tollerable, nothing like what I hear a dry socket is, so I don't think thats what it is. Any ideas?
Answers: I just got my wisdom teeth removed a week ago and one of the spots where they removed the tooth, theres a hole. Not a blood clot, but a hole. It hurts but it's tollerable, nothing like what I hear a dry socket is, so I don't think thats what it is. Any ideas?
It is the socket area where your tooth once was. It may take months for this area to fill in and may never fill in completely. Keep the area clean by rinsing with warm salt water. In another week or so you will be able to brush over the area but avoid doing that for awhile yet.
If you had a dry socket, this would have developed within the first three days after the extractions. You would have experienced severe pain and would have been calling your dentist long before now. Keep the extraction areas and your teeth, gums and tissue clean and you will do just fine.
It will fill in....thats normal. Scar tissue will fill that in.
your gums don't heal that fast...wait a week or two closer to a month and the hole will be replaced with gum and scar tissue
I had my wisdom teeth our 9 years ago and I still have a weird caved-in spot on one side where the tooth was. The other side filled in, but this side is really weird and sensitve when I brush it wrong. Keep it clean but don't brush it too violently.
It's where your teeth use to be.
its a pirmanet tooth so when u pull it out it will leave a hole but it will get filled on wit gums tissue. it will do that on its own.