Dentist performed a curretage and scraping of my wisdom teeth extraction site. Did I stuff up?

[Cubingking]

I’m currently in Spain for my study abroad program.
I had my two upper wisdom teeth removed last week 22/12 in Australia.

The right side healed up very quickly and had no problems.

However the left side was starting to really hurt by day 5/6 and worsened by day 7.

I went to the ER on day 7 and they prescribed me some augmentin and said most likely infection.

I’d been on the augmentin for 5 days and noticed very little improvement.

I still flew to Spain for my study program and today I visited a dentist since I was desperate.

It was hard with the language barrier but he basically said to scrape and clean the pocket that was hurting or he called it a curretage.

I didn’t realise that this would mean I would have to go through the whole process again. I noticed not many people get this as well. But I’m very young and naive.

I went with it cause I didn’t know what to do and honestly in hindsight idk why I didn’t take time to make a decision first but I regret it so badly.

I’m so upset and scared that this is going to make things much worse. Now does this mean I can’t eat for days and recovery has “reset”? I was already back to eating solids despite the pain before the dentist did thisz

Can anyone please advise me as to what to do?

Do I just wait this out or should I visit a different dentist?
Will it heal quicker this time or take just as long?

 

[Gordon]

It's a fairly common treatment for dry socket over in Europe. There's nothing "wrong" with doing it, it's not commonly done in the UK (by extension not in Oz either) but it's OK.

It won't make anything worse and shouldn't make healing any slower. In theory it'll speed up healing a bit.

 

[Cubingking]

Thanks so much for your reply.

I’ve been very anxious about it ruining my semester abroad and honestly the whole Spanish dentist experience was scary not being able to understand them without a translator.

The thing that annoys me is he didn’t confirm whether it was a dry socket just said the clot isn’t healing and if it’s still hurting he needs to curette it

It’s been a couple days since the curettage and bleedings stopped just feel a little swollen and uncomfortable but no real pain.

Do you think I can eat some normal food on my other side and drink a couple beers? Like can I risk getting dry socket again? I know there’s a foam thing in there now

 

[Gordon]

It's fine to eat and drink whatever you like now, there's no risk of dry socket at this stage.

Enjoy your beer Not a big fan of San Miguel but I quite like Estrella Damm.

 

[Cubingking]

It's fine to eat and drink whatever you like now, there's no risk of dry socket at this stage.

Enjoy your beer Not a big fan of San Miguel but I quite like Estrella Damm.

Thank you so much. Same here, have been enjoying estrella!