Bad smell day 4 after tooth extraction

[mpoinar]

Hi, I had a lower right molar that had snapped off at the gum line removed last Tuesday. I've had 1/3 rd of my teeth removed and don't remember having this particular problem before. My dentist added a gel foam pack after the extraction.

My salt water rinses have been very very gentle and careful since I didn't want to get a dry socket. The pain on day 3 was quite bad - throbbing - but now on day 5, it's not bad at all. On day 3 I started to notice a very foul odor coming from the area, it got worse on day 4 and today on day 5 I finally looked into the extraction area and saw this white stuff with some black mixed in it and touched it with an cotton swab. It was not hard like I had thought, it was loose and didn't hurt. But that is where the very very foul odor is coming from.

So my questions are:

1. What is it I'm looking at that is soft and white with some black? Is it the gel foam pack? My husband says he's seen it there from day 1.
2. Why is it smelling so badly?
3. And what do I do about it?

Thank you very much, Martha

 

[mpoinar]

Hi, I had a lower right molar that had snapped off at the gum line removed last Tuesday. I've had 1/3 rd of my teeth removed and don't remember having this particular problem before. My dentist added a gel foam pack after the extraction.

My salt water rinses have been very very gentle and careful since I didn't want to get a dry socket. The pain on day 3 was quite bad - throbbing - but now on day 5, it's not bad at all. On day 3 I started to notice a very foul odor coming from the area, it got worse on day 4 and today on day 5 I finally looked into the extraction area and saw this white stuff with some black mixed in it and touched it with an cotton swab. It was not hard like I had thought, it was loose and didn't hurt. But that is where the very very foul odor is coming from.

So my questions are:

1. What is it I'm looking at that is soft and white with some black? Is it the gel foam pack? My husband says he's seen it there from day 1.
2. Why is it smelling so badly?
3. And what do I do about it?

Thank you very much, Martha

In case anyone else has this problem of a terribly foul odor coming from their extraction site and throbbing, I found something that helped me. Yesterday I put a wet black tea bag on the wound and held it there for 30 minutes. And today I did it again. I don't notice an odor anymore and the throbbing was helped tremendously also. This is day 6 of the tooth pull.