Any DENTIST or dental assistants please help with my question?

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I had tooth #5 extracted this past Monday. I have been doing ok but I have a slight ache to my gum almost like a toothache. It is not as severe as the toothache was but it hurts. I was on antibiotics prior to the extraction and I still currently taking them. I am worried about a dry socket. I have been told however that a dry socket hurts worse than a toothache. I have been rinsing with warm salty water like I was instructed to do. My dentist did say that the roots were very large but I am just concerned. I have had extractions in the past that were relieved by this time. What do you think is going on?

Answers:
hun please call your dentist u need to have it filled with packing u do have a dry socket and they do hurt worse in duffertent areas so call him and please dont drink thru a straw u can get blood clots that way sweety

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If you are worried about dry socket be sure you don't suck on straws or anything. Sometimes being on birth control pills can increase your risk of developing dry sockets.

I'm not a dentist or dental assistant but, it sounds like the ache you are feeling is maybe from the pulling and if your roots were large this could also be contributing to your ache. Keep doing what your dentist told you and if it isn't better by Monday call him. I do hope it feels better soon.

Dry socket typically starts to hurt on the 4th or 5th day after an extraction. Tooth #5 usually has two roots that divide from the main root about half-way down the tooth. I've seen cases where the patient has a "partial dry socket" in tooth #5 because the top half of the blood clot is gone, but the two smaller parts of the socket are still filled with a good clot. There is not so much bone exposed as there is in most dry sockets and the pain is quite a bit less. If you have a nasty taste in your mouth, there's a good chance that this is what happened to you. Too bad it's Friday night or I'd say get to the dentist... Continue to rinse gently. If it starts to really hurt, fold a piece of gauze so that it will fit in the space between #4 and #6, moisten it and bite down on it to keep air and saliva from getting in there. (Don't fall asleep with gauze in your mouth, though.) This will tide you over until Monday.

Two words, DRY SOCKET. Go back to your dentist and have it packed. Then don't smoke or drink or suck through a straw for at least forty-eight hours. Dry socket is agony. I had one from a wisdom tooth extraction. No amount of advil would kill that jaw throbbing pain. Don't wait see your dentist, your bone is exposed to external sources (air, food etc.) and has no covering to keep it from throbbing.

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