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Non-doctorial advice...
Dry socket sucks big time. Given the predicament with contacting your oral surgeon I would suggest putting some neosporin into the socket and then covering it with vaseline and a cotton swab. The neosporin should help to kill the bactii and the vaseline will help to keep out further infection - the cotton (which you should have been packing it with from the get go) keeps the area wet. Air and the bactii in your mouth are the main causes of dry socket, as I understand.
As soon as possible though get ahold of your dentist/surgeon as dry socket is nothing to fuck with. It can spread rapidly to your tonsils and glands causing all kinds of really nasty stuff you do NOT want to go through. Normally, this will not happen but if untreated it definitely can cause some bad stuff.
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