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FAQ: Dry Socket

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Dry Socket Ask The Dentist Corinne Scalzitti

Question:
I have had terrible pain in my right back half of my mouth for 1 month now.

So bad that it is waking me up at night. I have been given amoxacillin and that didn't take the pain away.

I have had my wisdom tooth extracted and now I am taking Clindamycin. I have been taking this for 48 hours now and no relief yet. The skin all around the extracted tooth is red and irritated and the bone in the way back on the right hurts to touch.

The bone where my wisdom tooth was hurts as well. I am beginning to loose hope and sanity. .... Visitor from CO

Answer:
You might have a dry socket.

This is when you lose the blood clot that formed in the socket where the tooth was and helps to heal the site. If you lose the blood clot, you have bone exposed that was around the tooth, and this hurts terribly.

See the dentist who extracted the tooth as soon as possible. He will probably want to pack the area with iodoform gauze with an anesthetic solution on it. He should change this every 1-2 days until the tissue starts to close over the site.

Corinne Scalzitti, DMD, MAGD
Austin Reconstructive Implant Dentistry
3900 RR 620 South
Austin, Texas TX 78738
(512) 263-3330

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