Hi Bryanna,

You are such an angel!

When I saw him on Tuesday and mentioned the dry socket symptoms that was when he asked me was it the worst pain in my life? He said on a scale of 1-10. I said about a 8 or a 9 and then he asked what was the pain level after taking percocet and I replied probably about a 7. So I guess he felt since I had reduction in pain after taking the pain medication that I didn't have dry socket. *shrugs* He didn't irrigate the area or anything he just took a quick look inside with the small mirror and told me to stay the course with my pain meds and etc.

Today he conducted a more thorough exam and that's when he said I had an infection inside the socket. That was when he pushed the syringe deep down into the socket and forcefully pushed the salt water into the socket (I guess that's the debriding process?) It was so painful, it felt like something inside my mouth had exploded. He had me spit the debris into a cup and I saw a bunch of hard brown pieces inside the cup. He didn't pack the socket with anything after doing this he basically told me to keep doing the salt water at home and continue the pain meds and start the antibiotics ASAP.