Dry socket treatment, timely treatment to prevent infection

If a series of uncomfortable symptoms occur after tooth extraction, such as pain, low fever, and bad odor from the wound, you should pay attention to dry socket. Dry socket must be treated promptly. The most important thing is to clear the decayed substances in the mouth. If the pain is unbearable, anesthesia can be used.

1. Treatment methods

1. The treatment of dry socket requires dealing with the decayed substances in the mouth. When the pain is unbearable, local anesthesia can be used to thoroughly remove the decayed substances in the mouth. This is the prerequisite for treating dry socket.

2. After anesthesia, use 3% hydrogen peroxide solution to clean the socket several times when it is not painful. It should be noted that the movements must be gentle, just clean the alveolar socket, there is no need to scrape continuously, and then rinse your mouth repeatedly with some saline solution.

3. After cleaning everything, use iodine-form gauze strips to plug the area where the tooth was just extracted, and then suture the gums. After about 10 days, the pain will improve, and then you can remove the iodine strip.

2. Disease Diagnosis

Symptoms of tooth infection include pain that is localized to a single tooth and is triggered by sweet or cold. This is usually caused by caries that has approached the pulp, which contains nerves. This pain usually disappears quickly. Patients should avoid stimuli that cause pain, use mild analgesics, and seek medical attention as soon as possible. Protracted toothache that is often aggravated by heat or cold and occasionally relieved by cold often indicates that the pulp is irreversibly damaged. This condition often leads to inflammation of the tissues around the apex. Periapical infection is often accompanied by swelling of the associated soft tissues, and often occurs in untreated pulpitis. Diagnosis can be made by palpation or percussion with a tongue depressor. If all the maxillary posterior teeth on one side are sensitive to percussion, maxillary sinusitis should be suspected. Erupting or impacted molars, especially third molars, can cause pain and inflammation of the adjacent soft tissues (pericoronitis). Less common causes of acute perioral swelling include periodontal abscesses, infected cysts, arthritis, allergies, salivary gland obstruction or infection, and peritonsillar infection.