Wisdom tooth removed. The hole eminates a foul smell. How do I get rid of the pungent, putrid odor?

Question

I rinse with salt water after every day, I rinse with Listerine and I'm taking antibiotics. Any advice would help.

Answer 1

You should definitely use a syringe so you can get back there for the cleaning. I had the same problem when i took all four of mine out. Your oral surgeon should be able to give you one if you go back there. The smell cannot really go away because it is apart of the healing process. It would take around one month to heal completely, so you will just have to wait. The odor will go away naturally once the gums have filled in the hole.

Answer 2

if it smells bad, it is most likely infected. 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

You might have dry socket and I have heard that clove oil helps with that. But you should always check with your dentist first and he/she may be able to give you some. Definately keep it clean is there pain associated? Dry socket hurts, so I hear. Either way, go back to your dentist, you don't want the infection to move into your jaw bone. That can be a real nightmare to treat. I had a girlfriend that had dry socket, never got it checked out and it took months for the infection to go way. Not something to mess around with at all. Be safe, see your doc! Good luck!

Answer 4

You probably developed a dry socket, you lost the clot, so it will have a bad smell... only time will get rid of this. If you think you have an infection, despite being on antibiotics you should get it checked because it is open and your bone is exposed you could get a very serious infection in your bone or bloodstream.

Answer 5

My boyfriend got his wisdom teeth out and had that problem. He went back to the place that did it and they gave him this plastic needle looking thing..i don't know what it's called, but you fill it with water and then spray it directly into the hole. What was making the horrible smell was food that had gotten caught up in them!

Answer 6

Irrigate it. The smell is "dry socket," and it's bacteria having a great time in the hole.

Talk to your dentist about how to irrigate the hole.

Answer 7

I had the samething but, I had to let it go away by itself. Brushing your teeth helps and sometimes I still get the smell for some reason.

Answer 8

They say lighting a match will cover most smells...when you smell it, like a match and suck on it? lol...just kidding.

You're doing the right thing...try using Crest oral rinse...it doesn't burn and I use it everynight...it helps with the bad morning breath too.

Answer 9

THIS MAY BE A DRY SOCKET. IF THIS WERE ALSO TRUE YOU WOULD BE HAVING VERY BAD PAIN.
CHANCES ARE THAT SOMETHING YOU ATE GOT STUCK IN THE HEALING SOCKET. YOUR DENTIST MUST FLUSH OUT THE SITE SO IT CAN CLOSE AND HEAL PROPERLY. MAKE AN APPOINTMENT A.S.A.P.

Answer 10

You have to get a syringe-type thing that can help you to clean out the hole.