Wisdom teeth and stitches?

Question

I had my teeth pulled on Tuesday and it is now Saturday. While rinsing my mouth out with the saltwater i loosened up one of the stitches! Part of it was just hanging there so i cut it and the rest is still in my mouth. Is this bad?
Also, I was given an irrigating syringe thingy that the nurse said to stick it directly into the socket and gently shoot warm water into the socket....is this correct or did i mishear her....wont that hurt a lot?
Thanks!!

Answer 1

nope! the stitches are supposed to come out :)

annnnnnd I have no clue about the syringe, I was just supposed to swish warm salt water around my mouth!

Answer 2

for the first few days you shouldn't be shooting water in it because you can make the blood clot come out. after that you can use it. yes, you can put it in there, but be careful not to injure the area. the stitches should stay a week to 10 days. you should have them check the stitches. they often have dangling strings that can be cut off and it is rare it would come loose and cause a problem, but still they should check it if you are not sure, because bacteria can get it in. later, i recommend you go to a biologic dentist.
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EXTRACTIONS

Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.


CAVITATIONS

A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.

There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.

Answer 3

Poor Sweetie! My 21 year old daughter just had all 4 wisdoms surgically removed today!!! We feel your pain.
Two fold answer: Are your stitches the kind that dissolve? If so don't worry. Otherwise, as your gums heal, the Ortho MD will gently tug them out w/ no pain.
The purpose of the salt H2O rinse is to remove debris, keep the bad bacteria count in the mouth low (since the incision is a portal of entry for bacteria) & soothe the swollen tissues. RINSE GENTLY...SO AS NOT TO DISTURB ANY CLOTS or you will end up with a "dry socket" [AKA gapping, painful hole not healing upwards, rather like a crater]. GOOD LUCK, hope you feel better soon :)

Answer 4

The stitches are probably ones that dissolve on their own. You did not cause them to loosen. They will finish coming out on their own.

And you did not misunderstand the dental assistant. The syringe is used to GENTLY irrigate the socket to keep it clean. No, it will not hurt a lot if it is done slowly. Use warm water.

Answer 5

I got my wisdom teeth pulled about a month ago. No, the stiches coming out are okay. I pulled one of mine out because it was irritating me.

What the nurse told you was correct. I thought it would hurt at first too but it didn't at all. But make sure you continue to use the syringe because I stopped using it after a week like it said, and now I think that it may be infected because it started to swell.

Answer 6

Yeah..it'll hurt when you shoot water at the stitches. Man, I was 11 when I got my wisdom teeth pulled out. My stitches natural dissolved..it's okay if part of it came out I think. It's more painful when you're older.

Answer 7

THESE STITCHES ARE PROBABLY DISSOLVING ONES AND SUPPOSED TO COME OUT ON THEIR OWN.
THE IRRIGATION WITH THE SYRINGE INTO SOCKET SHOULD BE DONE TO HELP IT HEAL AND KEEP IT CLEAN. YOU MUST DO THIS GENTLY SO AS NOT TO HURT. YOU DID NOT MISUNDERSTAND THESE INSTRUCTIONS.