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Dry socket taste 3 weeks after extraction

  • 14-10-2014 8:42am
    #1
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭


    I got a tooth removed 3 weeks ago and today I have that dreaded, awful smell of dry socket. There is no visible hole. The socket is closed up as far as I can see.

    Is that normal? I have absolutely no pain at all.

    I'll ring my dentist this evening but I said I'd ask here first to see if it happened to anyone else.


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


    That would be late for a dry socket and generally they are quite painful...
    I'd guess a late post op infection or a stitch abscess or some food trapped where it shouldn't be...
    Get it looked at..

    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    I got a tooth removed 3 weeks ago and today I have that dreaded, awful smell of dry socket. There is no visible hole. The socket is closed up as far as I can see.

    Is that normal? I have absolutely no pain at all.

    I'll ring my dentist this evening but I said I'd ask here first to see if it happened to anyone else.


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