Dry Socket question. 10 pts!?!
Question: Hi All.
Today I am 5 days out of my surgery, tomorrow morning will be day 6. Yesterday (day 4) I thought I had a dry socket. The Dental Hygienest flushed around my sutures and a little piece of bone came out. She gave me a syringe to continue to flush the teeth.
I flushed them twice. One of my sites became irritated and began bleeding. It lightly bled for several hours. I called the surgeons office who said I SHOULD NOT have been given the syringe and to discontinue as to not harm the clot.
The site is still irritated and maybe a 1 out of 10 on the pain scale. My question is do you all think I still have a chance of getting a dry socket. Other than the syringe I have followed post op directions perfectly.
Please Please answer. This whole thing has be so anxious.
Answers: Hi All.
Today I am 5 days out of my surgery, tomorrow morning will be day 6. Yesterday (day 4) I thought I had a dry socket. The Dental Hygienest flushed around my sutures and a little piece of bone came out. She gave me a syringe to continue to flush the teeth.
I flushed them twice. One of my sites became irritated and began bleeding. It lightly bled for several hours. I called the surgeons office who said I SHOULD NOT have been given the syringe and to discontinue as to not harm the clot.
The site is still irritated and maybe a 1 out of 10 on the pain scale. My question is do you all think I still have a chance of getting a dry socket. Other than the syringe I have followed post op directions perfectly.
Please Please answer. This whole thing has be so anxious.
You could develop a dry socket, but you are easing past the worst risk days for that happening. Probably what caused the problem was the tiny splinter of bone in there, and it wasn't helped by all the flushing done. The clot in the jawbone at the site of the extraction should be fairly well sealed by now, and what you are left with is irritable gums. I mean, they have been traumatized quite a bit in the past week- so matters in the area would be sore, tender and irritable. A dry socket is caused when the bone dehydrates, and it causes a nagging ache in the jaw belown the extraction site- not in the gum tissue itself. The ache usually just gets gradually worse as hours pass. I really think if you just leave the spot be, things will ease off and settle down for you. At this point, a swich and rinse is all you need to do to keep the site clean. You will have better luck brushing and not hitting the spot if you use a soft toddler size toothbrush as well. If you really need to clean around the spot itself, a clean fingertip and a guaze pad is what you use for that. And a very gentle touch. If you have sutures at the extraction sites, you are really unlikely to develop a dry socket. But the sutures are the absorbably type, and not everyone gets along with those. The body can react to those as invaders sometimes- though usually in the mouth they will dissolve before that becomes a problem. Yours will likely be coming loose and going away in the next few days. Just stick with what you have been doing, and relax. You are well into the healing, and if the pain is at a 1 out of 10, you are ahead of most people. Warm liquid pooled in the cheek pocket on the sore side will probably relieve the pain you do have. Good luck, and yeah- toss the syringe.
its a possibility. when i had my dental surgery i was told not to use a syringe for a week to let the clotting work properly, then i used a syringe to flush out anything that wasn't supposed to be there. i would go back to the dentist in a few days if you don't see any improvement.
Dry socket is an inflammation of the alveolar bone after a molar is removed. It usually causes sharp pain about two to five days later. Since it affects the bony lining, there is usually little swelling.
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Yes you do still have a chance of getting a dry socket. i had my surgery last saturday, and got my sutures out 2 days ago, and the dentist said that it is almost healed, but i still have chances of dry sockets.
i wold go back to the surgeons and have him take a lok on it.
good luck!!1
I think the surgeon's office is RIGHT, when you get the tooth pulled, a clot forms which is necessary for the healing of the gum tissue. It is hard to believe that she flushed out a piece of bone, I mean that would mean that the tooth was broken and left in your gum. But, anyway, I would think that your gum has reestablished a NEW clot, so just make sure you go real easy on your eating, drinking and brushing for 2 more days. I think you will be all right. (I had a tooth out last month, so I went through it too).
hi if you look in your mouth and dont see a clot you have a dry socket. dry sockets feel like a mule kicks you in you jaw, it is not a slight pain. dont use a straw etc.,any thing that will cause a vaccum in that area will pull the clot out. if you have a dry socket the pain will be excrutiating, but being 6 days after surgery i dont think you have one. if it is really painful then get to the dentist, the process takes a few days to fill the hole where the nerves are exposed.
I have had a dry socket before and on a scale of 1- 10 if it was a dry socket you would be at least a 7. I can`t belive the dentist office told you to use a syringe . Usually they tell you to ribce gently with warm salty water You could check out the link below..Hope your mouth feels better soon
I have a dry socket right now, and I knew because there was like a foul taste coming from the spot where the clot came out. I would suggest getting a dressing, even if it's not a dry socket. It's like a little strip they stick down in the hole and it numbs it and helps alot. I got 2 today and all pain has stopped.
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Also, dry sockets can heal themselves in like 3-5 days, so it's no big deal.
But they are no fun.
there is still a chance to get a dry socket until you are completely healed but your chances are greatly diminished. the first 3 days are when you need to worry the most. the main 3 things to avoid after an extraction are:
1.) smoking
2.) spitting
3.) sucking (like through a straw)
those three things create a pulling action with your jaws creating a possibility to jerk that clot out. i would say that your gums are almost healed by now so i wouldn't worry. don't treat it as if you've never had surgery but don't focus on it too much. that just causes unnecessary anxiety. your sutures should be dissolving within the next couple days.
good luck with it all!