Posts Tagged ‘Molar extraction’

If flickr is working you will see the picture above. That was a painful cavity – felt like a hornet sting at times but usually felt nothing.

I got it pulled 3 weeks back now for $40. The dentist just gave me a local & yanked it. No cleaning the hole or stitches. It was meant to have healed by now.

Well I took pain killers for 4 days afterward and the pain subsided. It wasn’t as bad as the cavity anyway. Then the gums began to regrow.
At some point about a week back the gum got infected. No pain just swelling and pus so I called the dentist yesterday & he said to go in today.

He immediately gave me a shot and started sucking bits of infected gum out. There was blood all over the place & I could feel it scraping the bone. I expected to be right back to square one after.

Well thank heavens the anaesthetic wore off and there is zero pain at all – none. So its nothing like the extraction.

He cleaned the wound properly and gave it stitches. I am on antibiotics too. My only fear now is the dreaded dry socket. That would be the icing on the fricken cake.

All along I cant eat a decent steak or lift real heavy – its a son of a bitch.