Hi annanut,
Yes, PM me with some locations and I will see what I can find for you. I can review professional websites and usually decipher between BS and reality.
The bone graft material is put into a bloody socket of numerous cells as a means of stimulating your immune system to go through a natural bone building process. The bone graft itself does not become solid. The growth of new bone integrates with the graft material to form solid bone. So the idea is to have a healthy bloody socket with lots of healthy cells swimming around to hold onto enough bone graft material to form new bone. The more graft you lose, the less bone will form.
Everything that you eat, drink, and rinse with will enter the surgical site. It imperative to not eat near the surgical wounds to avoid food impaction and to be mindful of drinking so as to avoid disturbing that area as much as possible. Avoid using a straw as the sucking motion can dislodge the graft. Drink normal but refrain from anything other than water as sugary drinks, spicy drinks, and caffeinated drinks will irritate the oral tissue and can disturb the healing cells. Rinsing gently with warm salt water 3-4 times a day keeps bacteria down and is therapeutic for healing. Avoid alcohol and mouthwash altogether. Both of which reduce the production of saliva and slow down the healing process. If the graft and blood clot have not married (combined properly) then the end result will be bone loss, not bone growth.
The white inside of the socket can be food debris, pus or normal tissue. Do not try to dig in there with anything to remove it. The clot does not stay red as it mixes with the graft and cells, etc.
Bryanna
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Thanks Bryanna for describing the difference in degrees. I will PM you (when I get on my computer-little confusing on here via phone!)
I am calling around today to see if I can get into a surgeon locally just to look at this. Im not sure what is the right/wrong thing to do from there. Just like another pair of eyes on it.
I wont start new antibiotics yet. All the reasons you embtion is why I hesitate. I rately ever take them/it been 10 years or so, but figured this was a worthy cause to prvent infection. But dont like the idea of more stronger ones unless the source of infection is ID'd, (and treated as needed first other than antibiotics if possible!)
I am not down on Bio dentistry....but this is an i dication we need BETTER and MORE of it. I cant find anyone else even within a very long drive. :-( which doesnt make the most sense if I need followup care. I feel like I need a person local and maybe a bio far away. I even thought about going to Nunnaly in TX for vacation and having work done!
had one last question. Since the "extra" bone graft fluff that was to the gills previously is gone, and gums are open... Will whatever I eat and srink just get absorbed into the graft (and real bone?) like there is no barrier at all. The hole is deep and while the graft still
Looked i tact on Xray, who knows if its going to be full of chicken soup? I only see white inside the "void" no blood clot etc.
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