When you have dry socket will the pain come on gradually or all at once?!
Question: My tooth was extracted 2 days ago and the pain hasn't been bad but tonight it's getting worse. Could this be the start of drysocket
Answers: My tooth was extracted 2 days ago and the pain hasn't been bad but tonight it's getting worse. Could this be the start of drysocket
I had all 4 wisdom teeth extracted about 1-1/2 weeks ago now. My oral surgeon told me that my 3rd day will most likely be my worst and he was correct. On the 3rd day I experienced the most swelling and had bruising. I was given dissolvable stiches on all four sides. The stiches finally came out just 2 days ago and they aggrevated me the most; however, they did help prevent me from getting dry socket. I found it helpful to rinse with warm salt water at least after each meal and use a gel pack to sleep with the first few days. After the first few days, I slept with a hot pack. I also have a syringe with a hollow needle that I shoot the water in the wounds now that I am eating solid foods food sometimes gets stuck in there. As a matter of fact, the only days I took my Percocet was my first day and my 3rd day. Any other time I took 2-3 Ibuprofin and would take Tylenol PM at night to help me sleep.
Good Luck. Everyone heals differently. My husband recovery took 2 days and he was perfectly fine. He ate a hamburge on his 2nd day. Today is my 12th day since my surgery and some things are still difficult to eat. I ate only liquid foods for the first week. Good things to eat: soup, oatmeal, grits, mashed potatoes, rice. I have to say the very best thing I ate was POPEYE'S Chicken's mashed potatoes and dirty rice. I mixed the mashed potatoes with the rice so that theywere easier to swallow. That was the most filling thing I ate, but I could not even handle that until about my 5-6th day. I have also lost 9 pounds since my surgery.
there are several precautions to take after extracting teeth:
- do not use a straw for sipping drinks. this dislodges the formed blood clot that is crucial for healing
- do not smoke/drink alcohol- this will affect the blood supply around the extraction site and increases risks for a dry socket
if you have done any of the following things in the last 2 days, it can develop into a dry socket.
in any case, visit your dentist in order to obtain further evaluation and care.
Dry socket usually develops with in the first two to three days so you are in the correct time frame.
Have you done anything that could have caused a dry socket to occur? If not then, then have you followed your post op instructions and rinsed several times a day with warm salt water, especially after eating?
Sometimes the extraction site will feel slightly more sore a day or two after the procedure. You may have eaten better, opening wider today or talked more stretching your mouth further than the past few days using the over stretched muscles and healing tissue. If you aren't experiencing a throbbing, dull aching pain that continues, and becomes progressively worse, then it may just be the normal healing process.
Continue taking any pain or other medications that were prescribed, rinse well with "very" warm salt water several times a day and be sure to keep your oral hygiene at its peak for better healing to take place. If your symptoms continue or become worse, contact your dentist or OS for an evaluation. Everybody heals differently and at a different pace, so unless your experiencing a much greater pain than what you did the first day, I would guess this is normal healing.