Dry Socket After a Tooth Extraction

Posted in category Dry

Dry socket can be common complication that happens to many people after a tooth extraction. Some of the most common symptoms include pain, a foul taste in your mouth, and a foul odor to your breath. With any tooth extraction, a dental patient will experience a certain amount of discomfort and some pain. If there [...]

Time and Care Speed Dry Socket Healing

Posted in category Healing

Dry socket is a condition that occurs following a tooth extraction when nerve endings are exposed to air, food and saliva. Because this condition can become quite painful, any treatment that promotes healing of the socket is essential to helping reduce and eventually eliminate the pain. Healing time for dry socket can take as much [...]

Painful Dry Socket Infection

Posted in category Infection

Having your teeth pulled is a painful process. The dentist has done his job correctly, stopped any bleeding, stopped the patient from feeling any additional pain and may have scheduled cleaning for a later date. The problem tooth may have left a patient’s mouth, but another problem can come up, even if an infection does [...]

Dry Socket Treatment And Coping

Posted in category Treatment

Having a tooth extracted is not a process that anyone looks forward to. What can make matters much worse, is the severe oral pain that can follow this dental treatment. The extraction socket, which is left in the place where the removed tooth was previously located, should be covered by a blood clot immediately after [...]