Dry Socket...........wtf can I do?
 

It's a Sunday and I'm not going to call my oral surgeon at 5am just because I got dry socket......... Other than pain killers what can I do? (For those of you that have had it as a post extraction complication). :helpme

Well I can tell you what not to do....
Don't hold your breath waiting for a answer from GFY simple minds...

Prevention of dry socket:

Women who use birth control pills or have their teeth removed in the first 22 days of the menstrual cycle are twice as likely to develop dry socket after an extraction. Schedule extractions during the last week of your menstrual cycle (days 23 through 28) ** when estrogen levels are low or inactive.

Avoid drinking through a straw

Avoid smoking, it contaminates the extraction site

Avoid excessive mouth rinsing, it interferes with blood clotting

Keeping food from impacting in this area. Chew on the other side of your mouth and gently rinse your mouth with warm salt water after the first 24 hours.

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Treatment could include the following:

Medication applied to the site.

Clove oil technique.

Gauze with medication.

Additional home care instructions.

Applying topical anesthetic.

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If its causing you real pain get a doctor. Better safe than sorry.

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.

Go to the pharmacy and ask for a vile of clove oil. Dip a Q-Tip down in it and gently rub it around the general area. It tastes like shit but it works. You can even soak a little piece of cotton in the stuff and stick it up in there a little I believe. Don't shove it in the hole but put it in the general area and it should do the trick.

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