Tooth extraction, is this normal?

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I’m going to get in touch with my dentist at 9 when they open in the meantime I was wondering if anyone could help me. I had a tooth out top right on Wednesday 2 days ago, it took nearly 40 minutes to get it out as the root was curved and it’s extremely sore now. The inside of my cheek is really sore and the gum still is. I’ve been really careful but I’m worried I have dry socket appearing, I’m still taking paracetamol (can’t take anything else as 10 weeks pregnant) I’d say it’s more sore than pain as such, deffo not as bad as the toothache. I’m taking them morning afternoon and night right now, I’m eating normal on the other side. The first pic was last night and 2nd pic is now this morning. Not sure if that’s the blood clots forming. Thank you

It's really hard to tell from the photos but it sounds normal to me. Mine was sore and bruised for weeks. Still feels odd now 3 months later and I have a shard of broken jaw bone working its way out of the gum!

Tooth extraction is really traumatic physically and if it took 40 mins then even more so.

Sounds normal. You will KNOW if it's dry socket.

I had a tooth extraction in a similar place. I also had dry socket, I managed to see it by angling a small mirror and shining my phone torch in- you could clearly see yellow all in the socket. I will say though, it didn’t hurt as much as I had been told it would and I never thought it was actually DS because it was painful but not this excruciating pain I had been told about. If it’s after a couple of days swishing some salt water around that side of your mouth really helps heal it up.

the tenderness will last for a while sorry, they really have to yank it out and mine was still swollen 8 weeks after the extraction. But the healing should start fairly soon and as long as there’s no yellow it’s healing ok. When I went back to the dentist for antibiotics she said that it’s really common to get DS or infections in the extraction site as well.

It took around 5 days for the pain to ease with my last extraction. That's without dry socket.

If it took 40 mins to get it out it's no wonder you are so sore, you poor thing! I'd say you are good for the moment and no dry socket. Hope you feel better soon!

It's nkt realt to do with how it looks but how it feels. Dry socket is 100x worse than toothache so you'd know. The second and third day are worse for pain as well. Take ibuprofen if you can cos it's an anti inflammatory

Sorry just seen you're pregnant. I thought you could take it before 20 weeks but prob not worth it so stick to paracetamol

Looks a lot like mine when I had it - apparently it's just the blood clot, which you want to be there to stop dry socket. Mine took several days to stop hurting, but at least the toothache had stopped, and it wasn't any worse than that.