9 days post op
 

Hi Bryanna,
I am 9 days post op for a lower right wisdom tooth extraction. I am pretty certain that I have dry socket... The day of my extraction I got home and removed the gauze to replace it and a huge blood clot was attached. I started bleeding and immediately put in another piece of gauze. After the third day I started having worse pain than before the extraction. I must also tell you that a piece of my tooth had to stay behind because it was too close to my nerve and the surgeon thought it was safer to leave it. (The root had no canal) He had a very difficult time with this tooth and spent over an hour on it and from what I'm told, he had to chip away part of my jaw bone.

I am still on antibiotics... still in a LOT of pain... and when I look at the hole, I see white. During the pain (when meds are wearing off, and they last about 3 hours) I also have pain in my upper teeth. My question is how long will this pain last?? This is three weeks of almost solid pain. I see the surgeon this week but the office thinks my mouth is simply traumatized and will take time to heal. I can't handle much more pain! Broken jaw bone? Dry socket? Trauma? All three?? And can using a syringe make dry socket worse? I use warm salt water and it hurts horribly when I'm done! I don't think its infected at all. Good Lord! I hope not!
Thank you for reading my rambling... I'm just DONE with all of this... :(

~Lori

Hi lori,

Did you see an oral surgeon for this extraction or a general dentist?

You have described classic symptoms of a dry socket and/or infection. Leaving a root in the bone can cause post op complications. I think this area needs to be re evaluated and x-rayed by an oral surgeon.

I would not use the syringe to irrigate it if it is painful because if it is a dry socket that means the bone is dry and the irrigation is just causing further trauma.

Let us know how you are doing.

Bryanna

Thank you... I have an appt with the surgeon tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.
~Lori

Lori,

Did you see the oral surgeon today?
What did he say? Hope it's good news!

Bryanna