Re: Wisdom teeth extraction - a few questions

On 2007-05-30, dentistJ@xxxxxxxxx <dentistJ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1.Well Barry, you can eat and ...eaten solid food already. Now you
need to rinse out the food carefully after each meal.
You can use mouth rinse or just warm salt water.

Sorry, I should have specified "substantial solids". Noodles are approx
2mm thick. My appetite is rather larger :)

2. No smoking perferrable your whole life. Cos nicotine can cause a
serious infection call "dry socket" which delay healing in serious
case your jaw bone may expose which is very painful that is gurantee!

Yes, I read about dry sockets online. Sounds horrific, so I'd obviously
like to avoid that. Haven't had a second cigarette yet, so fingers crossed.

I thought it was caused by the sucking motion when drawing on a cigarette
though, and that this pulled out the blood clot?

3. No alcohol with drug at any time my friend. Wait till your wound
heal up first. No Alcohol with pain KILLER!!

Heh, okay.

The gauze should not be stiched in, possible is just blood sticking
together. It did sounds like your operator a bit rough.

I am guessing that the top and bottom gums are separately stiched up, and that
separate gauzes were placed on top of the wounds. And that in time, the whole
lot got stuck together with blood and whatever else.

The experience was a bit rough. I'd always imagined wisdom tooth extraction
to consist of a general anaesthetic and possibly an overnight stay. Not
something that I'd remain conscious through, and be done in 90 minutes!

Thanks for the advice...

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