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2007-01-18 17:44:51 · 2 answers · asked by t s 3 in Health ➔ Dental
A dry socket is the body's response to damage to the extraction site, i.e. the blood clot that forms when the tooth is removed is lost, generally due to the suction needed to draw on a cigarette, or suck through a straw, or similar sucking motion. Healing takes place under this soft clot and when it is lost infection can take root. The soft blood clot is the mouth's equivalent to a scab that forms elsewhere on the body and protects a wound. Unfortunately nice hard scabs can't form in the moist environment of the mouth. So to answer your question it is next to impossible to predict who will and who won't have a dry socket but by following all your post op instructions fully and completely you will minimize the likelihood that you will be one of them!
2007-01-18 19:20:25 · answer #1 · answered by rppj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SINCE DRY SOCKETS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO LITIGATION, THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE STATISTICS FOR THEM.
DRY SOCKETS ARE THINGS DENTISTS DON'T WANT THEIR PATIENTS TO EXPERIENCE. THEY ARE NOT STATISTICALLY REPORTABLE. DENTISTS USUALLY REPORT ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF DRY SOCKETS.
THERE IS NO INTERNET RESULTS FOR THIS.
2007-01-18 18:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋