Another bit from my experience: Sometimes there can be a missed bit of tooth still in your jaw.

The oral surgeon who pulled my wisdom teeth was probably an excellent doctor. But even a good surgeon can miss something now and then.

Many years after the wisdom teeth were out I noticed an odd bony lump in the back of my mouth. More years went by, and one dentist called it a "condensing osteoma." Since it wasn't causing me pain, life went on.

Then I had to have the back molar on that side pulled, and the dentist doing the extraction found that it was a bit of wisdom tooth that had been causing that bony growth. She took it out right then, and I finally got rid of the bony lump, which was getting in the way of swallowing.

So when you see the oral surgeon, you might want to mention this as a possibility--and if any tooth was left, you'll be spared what happened to me because bone forms around those bits as time goes by, apparently.