Sequestrum

c0ldfyr3

Hi all,

(Sorry about the length of the post!)

If this is bordering on medical advice I'm sorry in advance it wasn’t my intention.

I recently [6 weeks ago] had a lower molar extracted. I’m fairly certain I developed a dry socket but due to work and my preferred dentist being 100 miles away I couldn’t make it to see him so I self treated the pain with clove oil and within a few days it was gone. I’m not saying it wasn’t painful, it was very much so, but at least I was over it.

So about a week ago I noticed something like a small blister forming in the socket. I was a small bit concerned at first as I thought it was an infection. It was painless though so I tried to ignore it. About 4 days ago I noticed something very sharp sticking out of where the blister was, it felt very similar to when I’d gotten a twig of rosemary implanted into the socket a couple of weeks ago so I thought maybe it was popcorn or something similar as lately I haven’t been making sure not to chew that side any longer as there’s no pain at all anymore. I tried to remove it gently and when I didn't budge I thought I'd let nature take it's course.

So the next day I was trying to move it around and maybe pull it out and it wasn’t working, there seemed to be a sensation below the healing line in the socket whenever I thought it might budge which was a little strange. I had my girlfriend look into my mouth and try and remove the artefact with a tweezers and she was adamant it was a piece of tooth! I thought she was hallucinating so when she said she didn’t feel comfortable removing it as it was giving her the creeps I tried myself for another couple of minutes to no avail. I actually broke a small piece off with the tweezers and thought it was a little strange it had the texture of a tooth.

I called the dentist then yesterday and explained the situation to the receptionist who seemed horrified and just as perplexed as I was as to what it was, her best guess was maybe it was still infected or something after the dry socket [?!] so I agreed to come in and see the dentist this Saturday. So today I was playing with it a lot and it seemed to be moving more than it was before. I did a lot of searching on Google and eventually found a page detailing what a ‘sequestrum’ is.

Happy in the knowledge I wasn’t about to rip out a piece of an adjacent tooth or something else horrific I got the tweezers out and low and behold the bugger came out!! It’s quite a sizable piece of tooth/bone to be honest; it’s about 5mm x 3mm x 3mm. I’m amazed it came from the gaping hole that was there only a week ago but I guess it’s a piece of bone that’s sheared off the socket wall as a piece of tooth couldn’t possibly have been hiding there this whole time.

Now I called back the dentist and cancelled the appointment as there’s absolutely no pain or sensation at all and the site seems to be going back to what I’d call normal at this stage. My question is does anyone here see a valid reason I may have to visit the dentist? The receptionist seemed happy enough and just said if there was any further difficulty to give her a call straight away, at the same time though she didn’t know what it was and seemed amazed when I told her what had happened =P

Thanks in advance,

c0ld

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