I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed one week ago.
Everything seemed to be progressing well. I began to get food lodged in these bottom sockets quite often.. mostly spaghetti-o's or noddles from chicken noodle soup. So, I have been eating soft foods even a week after.
I would swish violently trying to get the trapped food out, I tried hard, but nothing worked. Decided to get a medicine syringe and just squirt the food out. Which worked wonders! But, unfortunately I got a little rough with the bottom left socket. It began to hurt from just the stream of water hitting it. Now I am feeling very dull pain in there when I drink water, or if I inhale enough air.
Thankfully the pain is not bad at all, but I wonder if it may be the start of a dry socket?
The right socket looks to be healing rather well. The left socket seems to have either bone mass, or maybe it's not bone mass but clotting, or it could be part of the stitching.. directly at the top of the socket. But just underneath it you can see a deep dark hole.
Not sure if I am on my way slowly to a dry socket, or if this is normal healing? Maybe someone one on here will be able to relate?
Not to mention that I began to come down with a cold just yesterday - day 6.. Burning sinuses, can't sleep. And today my nose is crazy stuffed and runny, which doesn't add to keeping things safe with healing with having to blow my nose constantly and sneezing hard from time to time. Blah.