Long ago, I went to a top specialist dentist and had a tooth extracted. He put in a bone graft because he felt it's best, and I remember him saying after he was done that he had cleaned out the socket of a lot of nasty infection.
Today, I went to a general dentist and had two adjacent teeth extract, one had a clear infection. He recommended against a bone graft, but in particular, he pulled the teeth and didn't spend one second on any sort of 'cleaning the infection'.
I asked him about it, and he said 'all of that goes away on its own naturally'.
My question is - was he lazy/low service, or did he do a perfectly appropriate treatment and the first dentist was somehow an exception?
For what it's worth, I'm in that 3 hours later period trying to not screw up the clot, eating some yogurt, and there's some decent pain so I just took some tylenol and the first amoxicillin he prescribed (though I took it about 6 weeks ago for the same infection, he knew that).
Today, I went to a general dentist and had two adjacent teeth extract, one had a clear infection. He recommended against a bone graft, but in particular, he pulled the teeth and didn't spend one second on any sort of 'cleaning the infection'.
I asked him about it, and he said 'all of that goes away on its own naturally'.
My question is - was he lazy/low service, or did he do a perfectly appropriate treatment and the first dentist was somehow an exception?
For what it's worth, I'm in that 3 hours later period trying to not screw up the clot, eating some yogurt, and there's some decent pain so I just took some tylenol and the first amoxicillin he prescribed (though I took it about 6 weeks ago for the same infection, he knew that).
