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jenbooks
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hi, I’ve had some terrible dental experiences in my life probably a combination of bad luck w bad dentists (extract a one root tooth and leave the abscess there, causing infection; remove a wisdom tooth with periodontal infection and bone loss and similarly not curette and clean it once again leading to infection and both cases required opening and debriding plus antibiotics which also led to pain for months as my nerves healed; plus in the second one he accidentally cut or nicked my masseter muscle and I ended up with 9 stitches and lpyd of discomfort) and then the fact that I have Ehler’s Danlos syndrome. We have lots of dental issues and slow healing.
I have a great expensive dentist in the city two hours away now and he removed a lower back molar w lots of decay, and also thoroughly cleaned it out and put in platelet rich peptides and a stitch. It was going well but 7 days later I gently used waterpik not pointing at area but I may have accidentally directed stream towards it anyway? It started throbbing some for days after that and I wondered if I had dislodged a corner of my clot. I thought after 7 days it’s safe but my subsequent reading suggests 10 days. The reason I wanted to clean it around there is my body hates dissolving stitches and gets very irritated by them and they get slimy and smell.
So now it’s a month and tho the hole is sort of narrow not big and gaping it’s still there, still has granulation tissue and food gets in there. I then used the syringe w curved tip and saltwater two days ago to wash it out but apparently that too aggressively as I washed out the granulation tissue. I didn’t see bone but what looked like very thin reddish layer in the small narrow crater there. Maybe new delicate tissue? Now I’m using the syringe very very gently and at a 45 degree angle.
The problem is I don’t know if it’s healing or I had very small dry socket? Also when I eat sugary foods it can flare with some soreness and mild pain. Is that due to inflammation or some little infection? It doesn’t sound like typical dry socket which sounds excruciating but folks w EDS are called zebras because everything about how our body reacts can be weird.
I’ll try to post a pix using a flashlight 2 days ago after the curved syringe inadvertently cleaned it out. The next day light yellow granulation tissue was back.
I may go to my oral surgeon but he’s two hours away. I stopped going to the one here after he messed me up.
I have a great expensive dentist in the city two hours away now and he removed a lower back molar w lots of decay, and also thoroughly cleaned it out and put in platelet rich peptides and a stitch. It was going well but 7 days later I gently used waterpik not pointing at area but I may have accidentally directed stream towards it anyway? It started throbbing some for days after that and I wondered if I had dislodged a corner of my clot. I thought after 7 days it’s safe but my subsequent reading suggests 10 days. The reason I wanted to clean it around there is my body hates dissolving stitches and gets very irritated by them and they get slimy and smell.
So now it’s a month and tho the hole is sort of narrow not big and gaping it’s still there, still has granulation tissue and food gets in there. I then used the syringe w curved tip and saltwater two days ago to wash it out but apparently that too aggressively as I washed out the granulation tissue. I didn’t see bone but what looked like very thin reddish layer in the small narrow crater there. Maybe new delicate tissue? Now I’m using the syringe very very gently and at a 45 degree angle.
The problem is I don’t know if it’s healing or I had very small dry socket? Also when I eat sugary foods it can flare with some soreness and mild pain. Is that due to inflammation or some little infection? It doesn’t sound like typical dry socket which sounds excruciating but folks w EDS are called zebras because everything about how our body reacts can be weird.
I’ll try to post a pix using a flashlight 2 days ago after the curved syringe inadvertently cleaned it out. The next day light yellow granulation tissue was back.
I may go to my oral surgeon but he’s two hours away. I stopped going to the one here after he messed me up.
