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Dry Socket Quick Fix

  • 01-06-2011 10:39am
    #1
    SlanGoFoil2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Got a back tooth out last Friday.

    Now have dry socket and extreme pain, need to be at important meeting tomorrow and cant get to dentist till Friday.

    Any ideas how to dull the pain till Friday - cant be drooling or sluring tomorrow.

    Putting clove oil on cotton and sticking it in - but tastes like crap and I smell like a sweet shop.

    Will cotton and salt water be ok.


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  • #2
    SlanGoFoil2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭SlanGoFoil2011


    Can leaving the cotton packed in my gum make the infection worse.

    Obvilsuly I cant have cotton packed in my mouth tomorrow and am afraid of the pain when I take it out.


  • #3
    Big_G
    Moderators Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Big_G


    Sorry mate the only fix is to see a dentist, have the socket rinsed and alvogyl placed.


  • #4
    SlanGoFoil2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭SlanGoFoil2011


    In on Friday to get it fixed.

    But trying to get through the next two days without looking/sounding like I have a lisp.

    Does leaving cottonwool in for a long time, make the inection worse


  • #5
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Big_G wrote: »
    Sorry mate the only fix is to see a dentist, have the socket rinsed and alvogyl placed.

    jaysis, you've changed man.


  • #6
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    Big_G wrote: »
    Sorry mate the only fix is to see a dentist, have the socket rinsed and alvogyl placed.

    I'll second that...


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  • #7
    Big_G
    Moderators Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Big_G


    It's all this time off, it's making my brain soft.


  • #8
    SlanGoFoil2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭SlanGoFoil2011


    Dont want to speak to soon - but cleaning it our with salt water and packing it full of cottonwool and clove oil for a few hours yesterday and today seems to have done the trick.

    But I think I will play it safe with a trip to the dentist tomorrow anyway.

    What you think.


  • #9
    hg03 eyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭hg03 eyu


    Could you not have rung the dentist that did the extraction in the first place for advice?


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