Hi Janice,
I am stumped as to why the dentist leaves the packing in for so long. To my knowledge that is not commonly done so I am thinking he has a specific motive for doing that.
The dry socket packing is used to soothe or reduce the pain associated with a dry socket and it works super well for that. However, other than soothing the pain, the ingredients have basically no healing abilities. If it is used unnecessarily or for too long a period of time, the healing of the sockets will be delayed. So based on your symptoms and the post operative time frame, I am puzzled as to why he keeps packing the sockets and why he leaves it in for so long a period of time. This could be something "he" does routinely, but I have no idea why he would do that.
Has he told you that you have an extreme case of alveolar osteitis? Do you have unusual extenuating circumstances that he is concerned about?
I would keep rinsing with the warm salt water since it seems to be helpful in spite of the packing in the sockets.
Bryanna
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Originally Posted by JG1993
Hi there,
Still no pain in the top and it's been all day - so I'm pretty happy about that. He has left the packing in this long before during this whole process, said it's perfectly okay to do so.. I'm not entirely sure why, I don't think it matters to him how many appointments I have. I've been kinda confused during the process why I needed to leave the dressings in for so long and have so many dressings. When he changes it and takes the packing out it feels fine and doesn't hurt, but I imagine I would have to wait a while before pain set in after taking it out? We took the packing out last week and within a few hours the pain returned so I called his office and he put it back in for me that afternoon.
He hasn't really told me to rinse lately.. he told me at the very beginning of this all to use warm salt water so I've still been doing that about 3 times a day. My mouth feels ok for the most part and it seems like everything looks ok when I look inside it. So far no signs of infection (I've had an infection in the wisdom tooth area before). I guess I should just continue doing this until I get the packing out? He gave me a syringe to use to flush the sockets out with once the packing comes out for good.
Thank you for your advice,
Janice
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