Marie---I had a lower molar out recently and was in awful pain for about 2.5 weeks. I also had no dry socket or infection.

However I find it REALLY weird they wouldn't give you a copy of the xray? Every single office I have ever seen has been fine with giving copies. And aren't the 3D xrays on disk? Mine was (the one I got pre-extraction), they just burned me a copy to take for my records.