Dry socket?

[MCH2012]

Hi I just got 3 teeth pulled on Monday. I’m still having bad pain in one of the teeth and to me it looks a little more sunken in then the others. Is this dry socket?

 

[Dr M]

Good day

Usually a dry socket is pain that presents 3 or 4 days after an extraction.
Do you have any photos of the area?

 

[MCH2012]

Still having pain.

 

[MCH2012]

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[Dr M]

If you still have pain, it is most likely that the sockets are infected. Make a follow-up visit with your dentist, so that he can clean out the socket, to facilitate a new blood clot forming. He will also give you some antibiotics to drink.

 

[MCH2012]

I have been on antibiotics this whole time and before though.

 

[Dr M]

It might be that the socket needs to be rinsed out. There might be food particles or tooth/ bone pieces left over that cause a chronic irritation. Sometimes it needs to be rinsed out more than once before the infection clears up-even with antibiotics. If you rinsed too violently, the blood clot could also have become dislodged, which could lead to this problem, i.e dry socket.
Arrange a follow-up visit with your dentist.
During this follow-up visit, the dentist can also take x-rays of the adjacent teeth, to examine their status.