Impacted Wisdom Tooth Extraction: Dry socket or Healing?

[AnaisAlvarez96]

Hi! I had my lower right impacted wisdom tooth extracted 5 days ago. This is the current condition of it. I’m worried I may have a dry socket though currently there’s no bad taste and bad smell in my mouth. I’m currently experiencing slight throbbing pains in the area of extraction. I tried poking it but it seems like a tissue or I don’t know it may be a stucked food debris. See photos attached.

 

[honestdoc]

It looks like normal epithelial repair tissue and healing good. Hopefully you are not experiencing outside swelling. Removing lower wisdom teeth can be very traumatic because the dentist/surgeon had to work inside the thick, dense jaw bone. The soreness should subside soon.