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Skennedy2
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- May 17, 2018
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I finally got my extraction last Monday and while it took a few minutes to get out, it was painless and the dentist was wonderful! (The roots were curvy, hence the longer timeframe). Yesterday I had half a cigarette and today I had the other half. After each time I salt water rinsed. I am paranoid because while I have passed the time for dry socket, I keep seeing one particular quote pop up both in this website and others saying that smoking after an extraction is a high oral cancer risk because of how the smoke contacts and abosrbs into the area. Of course I know oral cancer is a risk of smoking whether there is a mouth wound or not but I just want to be on the safe side. I tried to keep gauze there while smoking but kept falling. My extraction site is healing with grayish, whitish, blackish granulation tissue and the hole is smaller. The gum on one side looks a little inflamed and is indeed sensitive. I just wanted to make sure I haven't done something very unwise even though it's 6 days post-extraction.