I just had two wisdom teeth pulled today. I need help with the clotting... at first it wasnt too bad, but then i put another gauze pad on and all of a sudden it was bleeding worse than it was. I was using the gauze and then a teabag until about 4:00... hour for each. I stopped using anything for about 2 hours. I had my surgery at around noon and now it is 6:20 and its bleeding really bad again. What do I do? Maybe I am confused on the whole process... any help is appreciated. Thank you!!
2007-01-26 11:22:49 · 5 answers · asked by Belle 1 in Health ➔ Dental
Get another tea bag and wet with cool water(not dripping but wet enough to mash on it and express liquid) place it over the open socket and apply "gentle pressure" for the next hour. Gentle pressure is just close the teeth together, no pit bull bite! And do not move it around. Use an ice pack on the outer cheek area 10 min on and 15 off. Don't put another gauze in, you must not have wet it enough and it pulled the clot out, or you've been changing it and disturbed the clot. Just use the tea bag for the next hour to see if you can get a clot. Don't keep putting it in and out, keep it in. If you do get a clot or it stops bleeding, do not put anything else on the socket. Do not spit or rinse your mouth. Do not drink carbonated drinks coke, pepsi. Only ice cold drinks of milk, tea or juice, smoothies, milk shakes and ice cream. Do not drink through a straw. Anything with that sucking type action can dislodge the clot causeing a dry socket or keep the clot from forming. Eat soft foods today and tomorrow, avoiding chips and hard crunchy food. Do not take aspirin. Use Advil or Motrin along with the pain medication and any other that the Dentist gave you. A little red is expected, but not a saturating type of bleeding that would be considered active. If that is the case you need to call your dentist and he will pack the area with a medicated material that causes clotting. I think what happens most of the time is the clot gets disturbed, just try to leave it alone with just the tea bag, the tinnic acid in the tea help to form clots. You may get one to form, then what ever you do don't disturbe it! Hope this will give you the help you need. If it doesn't clear up in a couple of hours, depending on the bleeding, call your dentist. Good luck!
2007-01-26 12:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by HeatherS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ouch... feel so sorry for u. WHen I got mine taken out(4 at once) it was bleeding like I got stabbed. What I did is I've put cotton and gauze to teh area where teeths have been taken out. Then I closed my jaw, put ice on my cheeks until the bleeding starts to settle. It helped me a lot. I wish you get better. Thats really painful. gdluck
2007-01-26 11:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by Help me 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Keep pad at least 12 to 16 hour don't remove or replace.
bleeding stop after 24 to 36 hour.
2007-01-26 11:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by ilove_ y 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
u have a dry socket. go to ur dentist. he has medicine to pack in there. pain will worsen and be worse than the toothache
2016-03-15 00:26:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the hospital soon - they will stop the bleeding
2007-01-26 11:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by hobo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋