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How long for an extraction to heal

  • 27-02-2013 10:32pm
    #1
    alanajane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭


    Hi, I had a premolar extracted last Friday morning, it now Wednesday evening and my gum is still sore enough, enough to need to take a painkiller. Thankfully I not in the rip-roaring pain that I was in to need extraction in the first place but thought it would be more healed by now. Any thoughts?


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


    the gum heals over at a rate of 1mm per day.
    it shouldn't really be painful a week later, other than the feeling of a punch in the face, depending on how straight forward the extraction was.
    sounds pretty normal really.


  • #3
    Geomy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    Just don't smoke,last thing you need is dry socket.
    My dentist in Limerick stitches up extractions,a nice tight dissolving stitch.


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