Originally Posted by Bryanna

Hi yillbs,

Thanks for posting the picture of the extracted tooth.

My advice for any future tooth extractions, see an oral surgeon and not this dentist. This tooth was removed without finesse and with brute force as seen by the amount of tissue and bone still attached to it. Not ideal.

I would think that you will most likely have bone spurs coming through the gum for quite some time as the site heals. When a tooth is extracted in this manner, the jaw bone splinters from the amount of force that is used to remove the tooth and those pieces of splinter can get lodged someplace or they can eventually make their way out of the gum tissue. Generally they travel to find a way out but they can cause some pain or soreness. If when they come to the surface they get stuck and cause a lot of discomfort, then see an oral surgeon to have them removed.

My concern with this is that because it was an upper tooth, there could be splintered bone that could make it's way into the sinus. So it would behoove you to have a post op xray done of this tooth to see if the location of the splinters can be picked up on the xray. This would tell you if you needed surgical intervention to remove them or not.

Bryanna