Originally Posted by smileyafrica

Hi Brianna,

I had an extraction 3 weeks ago, on an upper tooth (4th from the front on the left). It seemed to go fine.

I have noticed that the gum isn't healing over the socket, but, has grown vertically. So there is a big hanging mass of gum tissue, almost as big as the tooth was, and also what looks like a pokey piece of bone in it.

After the extraction, I moved from the US to Africa. I'm a little worried about how to communicate to the original dentist to figure out what is going on, and then if I should try to go in to a local dentist (it's a big urban area here), or let the body heal itself.

The hanging down tissue is pretty distracting and it has gotten bigger the last couple of days.

Thanks for any thoughts or ideas.