Has anyone experienced a slack tooth post dental extraction?

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I had a molar taken out of the upper left on Thursday. My teeth are strong and it took all the tools plus help from another dentist to get it out. I spent 10 mins upside down while the dentist attempted to get it to clot with no success. She said at the time she'd manipulated the gum as best as she could but had concern it would turn into dry socket - which it has. My head is pounding and can feel the pain in my twitching eye now too. I'm in a lot of pain and I can barely brush my teeth near the extraction site. I have another appointment at 1:30 to sort this

However I accidentally hit one of the teeth lightly with my toothbrush and it was so sore. I've had a check and now realised I have a wobbly tooth! Google says it'll stop wobbling in a couple of week, is this right? I'm worried I'm going to lose this one now!

So not to drip feed - I'd never known it to happen to anyone but this is actually an extra tooth that grew from 0 in the roof of my mouth during lockdown. Much to my surprised (and it freaked me out for a long time!)
My dentist did a referral on Thursday to orthodontist to see if they could use the (previously useless) tooth to fill the gap. It is located behind the tooth that was taken out so likely it was knocked

I had this after having a lower molar extracted - exactly like you, it was a “difficult extraction” and my tooth had to be sectioned into bits to get it out in the end. The dentist explained that the neighbouring tooth had taken a beating in the process, and would be fine in a couple of weeks. It was! I spent so much time googling that I was practically a dentist myself, but should have just have listened to her really!

Hope you've gotten your dry socket sorted.

The tooth in the roof of your mouth would've always been there but only just decided to pop itself out.

Difficult extractions are difficult for everyone in the room especially when a patient has strong roots. I know some dentists that I've worked with wouldn't even attempt the difficult extractions sometime and just get them see elsewhere.

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