Anyone had teeth pulled when there was a bad infection?

[avion]

A dry socket is when the blood and general bodyfluid gunk come out of the wound, ie the hole where the tooth was. Thus exposing the nerve to air. This is extremely extremely extremely painfull.
So don't poke about in there with your tounge or anything really. lol
Be very gentle when mouth washing so you don't knock the blood/gunk out.

Smoking is also bad after you've had mouth work done. Slows down the healing process by at least half.

hth

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[Geoff587]

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Erm.... Geoff?

You can't get toothache with false teeth mate.



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I asked for that

 

[dazco]

[quote author=avion link=topic=6039.msg33535#msg33535 date=1245425314]
A dry socket is when the blood and general bodyfluid gunk come out of the wound, ie the hole where the tooth was. Thus exposing the nerve to air. This is extremely extremely extremely painfull.
So don't poke about in there with your tounge or anything really. lol
Be very gentle when mouth washing so you don't knock the blood/gunk out.

Smoking is also bad after you've had mouth work done. Slows down the healing process by at least half.

hth

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I see. I thought it was a condition caused by rinsing, something that might cause it to heal wrong or something. in any case i never felt any pain so i guess most of that disturbing concoction stayed in there.

 

[grandpaul]

Repeated tooth (root) infections invariably lead to jaw infection and eventual loss of major bone mass.

Sounds like you need to get to the bottom of your problem and stop pulling out symptoms.

 

[dazco]

Sounds like you need to get to the bottom of your problem and stop pulling out symptoms

According to the dentist he did. I'm not about to second guess him !

 

[DaveM]

I don't know what is worse, a thread about spiders or the dentist :tongue:

 

[CarlS]

Dentists by far!!!

 

[avion]

ditto!!!

had nightmares last night coz of this thread.

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[DaveM]

What was the big nasty dentist holding you down in his chair :y114: