“Will antibiotics help a dry socket?”
I am a 29 year old female and I have a dry socket. Will antibiotics help a dry socket?
3 Answers
None. A dry socket is exposed bone. If you lose the blood clot that filled the socket after an extraction (spitting, suction, smoking can cause this), then you have exposed bone. It is very painful to have exposed bone. It is not an infection, however. It needs to be dressed with medication at the dental office. It will usually go away within 2 weeks, but most patients can't take 2 weeks of the pain.
Some, but the best treatment is to place eugenol on cotton and place in the extraction site. It is readily in a Red Cross toothache kit from the drug store or from a dental office
Hello,
No antibiotics will not help dry socket (alveolar osteitis). After an extraction of a tooth the socket that the bone sits in immediately forms a blood clot; just like any other cut on the body. This clot helps protect the area while the jaw bone and gum tissues heal and fill in. Dry socket is the lost of this blood clot and it can present in a variety of ways. Most of the time it will have some level of discomfort (usually less discomfort the longer it was before the lost of the clot. Antibiotics are used together with the immune system to fight a bacterial infection. Hope this helps.
My best to you!
William F. Scott IV, DMD
Deluxe Dental Group
No antibiotics will not help dry socket (alveolar osteitis). After an extraction of a tooth the socket that the bone sits in immediately forms a blood clot; just like any other cut on the body. This clot helps protect the area while the jaw bone and gum tissues heal and fill in. Dry socket is the lost of this blood clot and it can present in a variety of ways. Most of the time it will have some level of discomfort (usually less discomfort the longer it was before the lost of the clot. Antibiotics are used together with the immune system to fight a bacterial infection. Hope this helps.
My best to you!
William F. Scott IV, DMD
Deluxe Dental Group
