Cracked full erupted wisdom tooth

[nickuku]

It was a few days ago that I noticed a pain in my lower right jaw so I looked in the mirror. My bottom right wisdom tooth had a huge crack in it. I'm not sure how that happened but I guess I haven't been very good with cleaning back there but the tooth is about 1/5th cracked and every time I eat food gets stuck in there and I have a hard time cleaning it(it hurts too). Not only that but every time I drink something cold the pain is excruciating enough to literally get me to my knees. My appointment is in a few days but is there anything I can do in the meantime to ease this pain? Also will pulling this tooth be complicated at all?

 

[Gordon]

A dentist could insert a temporary filling to stop it hurting if you could get an emergency appointment.
Pulling most teeth isn't complicated, wisdom teeth are usually quite easy, it's the difficult 1% that get the rest a bad name!

 

[nickuku]

I just had mine extracted is it normal to be bleeding a good amount after 2 hours?

 

[Gordon]

If it's enough to worry you, give the dentist a call. I presume you've tried putting some pressure on the socket etc?

 

[nickuku]

If it's enough to worry you, give the dentist a call. I presume you've tried putting some pressure on the socket etc?

I called my dentist and he said it was more or less the saliva that was making it seem a lot worse than it actually was. There was a lot of pain the first night but it has gone down considerably after a night's sleep. The bleeding has completely stopped and everything seems fine except that the extraction point looks like a scene from a gore movie lol.

 

[nickuku]

So I was brushing my teeth lightly and after I noticed that there was a small hole where my tooth used to be. Its about 3/4 of a centimeter long and very thin about 1/4 or 1/5th of a centimeter wide. I'm very concerned that this could be dry socket. I didn't notice any blood clots falling out or anything nor have I experienced any pain. Its been about 43 hours after the extraction now. How fast will I experience pain after losing my clot. I'm not even sure if it is one in the first place due to the fact I can't see anything down there but black. I'm afraid to eat anything right now.

 

[Gordon]

Dry socket is not impossible to mistake, but it's very rare. Your clot has broken down fairly normally by the sounds of it, try to keep it clean and don't worry about it.