[Sanctitystudio]

Hey there.

I had one of my wisdom teeth out at the emergency dentist yesterday (Sunday) morning. I have a dental mirror here at home with me and can see the blood clot formed on top of the hole.

I didn't really get any aftercare advice besides don't smoke for 24 hours. I've been cleaning my teeth as normal very carefully and very gently washing my mouth out with sensodyne non-alchol mouthwash.

Any other things I should watch out for/keep in check?

I get anxiety and paranoia and I've managed to get myself worked up about a simple tooth extraction healing process... I really don't like the idea of getting a dry socket or having any further complications.

Any advice from a professional/people that have dealt with the healing process before would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Joe

[joypulv]

Are you a smoker? You should wait more than 24 hours. I'd wait 4 days. Get a patch or e-cig.
Salt water is a better mouthwash, but maybe non-alcohol ones are OK. What are the ingredients? If sodium chloride - that's salt. Is the rest color and flavor?
Keep peering at the gum to make sure food isn't caught. Look for red gum, sign of infection.
That's about it.

[teacherjenn4]

Don't drink out of a straw, and no hot liquids. Make sure you are careful to eat only soft foods and try to stay away from that side of your mouth.

[odinn7]

The 2 before me gave you excellent help already but I wanted to put this out there...

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled, I was told 4 days no smoking. Sooner than that and you can have issues like dry socket. I actually took this time to quit a 20 year smoking habit. I figured I could go 4 days, let's see if I can do 5... then 6... now it's been 9 years.

I was told to rinse a few times a day with salt water.

No straws.

Soft food.

[Sanctitystudio]

Cheers guys.

Its now just got 48 hours since the extraction the blood clot is still in the socket, I'v been very careful with eating/drinking etc. Been cleaning my teeth as usual but very gently near the area of extraction.

This is the mouthwash I have been using, Sensodyne Pronamel Mouth Rinse | Pronamel Daily

Ill switch it up to warm salt water today to be sure though.

I have been smoking, but very carefully, and only a few (4/5) a day as opposed to my normal habit.

No pain at all so far, the area of extraction does get a bit sore towards to the end of the day though. Ill keep just being really careful with it and see what happens I guess.


Cheers for the responses guys, gives me a bit o' peace of mind.


Any idea of the overall healing time for something like this?
And when roughly will the clot fall out by itself so I don't panic myself?

I guess pain is the indicator if something is wrong.


Cheers again.