Hello!

I'm looking for some advice on recently having roots extracted (2 sets next to eachother, upper bicuspids). The beginning of the story is that when I was pregnant, my 1st bicuspid suddenly fell out one night while I was eating dinner, leaving roots behind. When I visited the dentist the same day they did not want to perform an extraction as I was pregnant and it was not causing me any pain.

Fast forward to last Wednesday (22/04) and I was finally going to have the roots removed in preparation for replacing the missing tooth. When the dentist had assessed me and performed x-Rays she noticed that I had another set of roots almost under the gum still there from a (2nd?) bicuspid which was extracted many years ago by a dentist who actually made a few problems for me in the dental area.

Both of these were removed very quickly and easily. It took me a while to get bleeding to stop and I had to re-rinse and clot again later on in the evening on the advice of a dental nurse as the clot had become dislodged. I did manage to successfully clot again.

Since then there has been minimal pain until this morning (day 5, counting day of extraction) and although not at all severe it is very annoying. It almost feels itchy at the site of extraction. I have been meticulous in all my post extraction instructions and checking the site with a dental mirror and torch every day. The site is covered with a 'film' of varying colours and this film has slowing started to sink down day by day.

Really my question is is the sinking of the 'scab' and itchy sensation normal? I am of course, terrified of dry socket!

Any advice warmly appreciated.