Any dentists around?

[Spottymushroom]

On Thursday I had quite a brutal tooth extraction. My mouth is bruised and swollen.
In the early hours of this morning I noticed that the blood clot had gone. I tried to have a look and it looks like what should be granulation tissue? Deeper down than where the blood clot was.

I’m not in much pain - nothing ibuprofen isn’t getting rid of. Apart from the soreness of a cut lip and bruised eye (I said it was brutal) the pain is mainly the gums from extraction rather than the hole where the tooth was.

my concern is my breath. It stinks. I can smell it myself and my family said I stunk the car out with it today. I have been regularly doing salt water rinses and with medicated mouthwash.

my main concern is dry socket but from what I’ve read that comes with extreme pain which I do not have. Do I need to be concerned?

Sounds like you've had a rough time, I don't have knowledge but can bump for a passing dentist

It doesn't sound like a dry socket , which causes an indescribable pain as the nerve is exposed . I used to get them whenever a tooth was extracted as a blood clot would never form .
When the dentist realised he'd put a tiny pad soaked with antiseptic in the cavity as soon as he took the tooth out .

So it does sound like there is something covering the nerve , in your case , skin or tissue I guess . Perhaps go back and see your dentist .

I had dry socket with only medium levels of pain that was helped by painkillers, and a really weird taste in my mouth. So it's definitely a possibility, if you're worried I would get it checked out.

My dentist dd says it sounds like dry socket and to go to the dentist and they will pack it for you.

Thank you for the replies. My dentist isn’t open until Monday is it okay to wait until then?

@Spottymushroom my concern is my breath. It stinks. I can smell it myself and my family said I stunk the car out with it today.

I'm not a dentist, but that sounds like an infection.

I would try to see what options you have to get some sort of professional advice.

Dry socket is the worst pain ever. I had it twice when had all my wisdom teeth out. N out sure if you get pain every time or if there's extremes, but antibiotics cleared it up for me.

Even if you were in the worst pain possible all you'd be told to do is cycle paracetamol/ibuprofen. I was in a similar boat but with immense pain about 2 weeks after a surgical extraction. Friday night, typical, rang 111, a dental nurse rang me back about 3 hours later and was lovely and supportive but theres not much could be done till Monday when oral surgery or dentists opened.

Thankfully you arent in too much pain but keep an eye for pus coming out as it could be a bit infected.