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Help here we go with the dental crap again!?

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I went to the dentist last thursday and had my very back molar pulled. It needed stitches in it alright I was under novacaine and couldn't feel them going in anyways. Well today I went to get the stitches out and I find out that the blood didn't clot leaving me with a huge swollen and painful lump where the tooth used to be. The Dentist packed it with gauze and something that tastes like cloves and told me to come back thursday to get the dressing changed. Well its only been about eight and the gauze fell out again as it did with the last tooth that he pulled two weeks ago. He gave me vicodin ES and motrin 800 for the pain but it isn't even coming close to killing the pain. He said if the packing fell out again to come back tomorrow and he would repack it but what is the use it never stays in and no it isn't a dry socket I asked. Can anyone help me through this miserable pain? I need some help. Thanks

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Really one of two things dry socket or infection. The treatment really sounds like a dry socket. Try asking again for I see no other use for packing a socket with eugenol and gauze except for a fix of a dry socket. A dry socket is a poor way of describing the lack of a stable blood clot at the extraction sight. Without a clot there is air to bone contact which really hurts. In the case of back molars you have a main nerve to your jaw just below the tooth roots and it can really ache. The reason for the packing is a Eugenol dressing will help place a barrier on the bone kind of like pepto on an irritated stomach. If the bone is shielded from the air pain is gone or much relieved. Overnight taking some of the gauze that your dentist gave with some oil of cloves (eugenol) and getting it back in is the best result. Upon going back if they have it, you might ask to see if they can place some collaplug or sew in a resorbable membrane to keep in the clot. Avoid any smoking or bubbly soda to help keep this in. Any sucking, such as straws ect... will help pull out clots. If it is an infection you should have been given an antibiotic. Warm salt water will be the best until you see your doctor. Avoid hydrogen peroxide or mouthwash for both will hurt the area. As pain goes you have some of the good stuff. The mix is good for high pain, but really tough pain is tough to manage. I would try both hot and cold packs to see if either just make you feel better. Hope you feel better soon.

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tell that a$$hole to give you 750mg vicodins
The dentist is doing the right thing for you. The packing that he used is probably called Alvegyle (I think I spelled that right) and it is a fiberous material, with an iodine color to it. In some cases, a patient has to have this packing done daily. I do wonder however, did he tell you it wasn't a dry socket, cause it sounds like one to me. And are you on antibiotics?

IM me if you want.

And by the wayTOMCAT, Vicodin ES is a 750mg.
Dental assistant for 10 yrs., I am the surgery coordinator in my office and take care of all the pre-op and post-op for surgeries.
It sure SOUNDS like a dry socket to me... Along with the typical treatment for dry socket...

Bite on a moist piece of gauze exactly the way you did after your tooth was removed. Keep changing the gauze as needed. This will keep the air and saliva from getting in there and that is the cause of a lot of the pain. You COULD get some benzocaine 20% (OraJel, etc) and put a dab on the gauze where it will touch the socket if plain gauze doesn't stop the pain.

Of course, you already know (as I can see in your question) that you need to get back to your dentist for proper treatment and best relief.