Yay, tha pain and swelling have gone
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
! Before I go into what happened at the hospital, I want to explain that my extractions were related to my jaw advancement surgery, since this site is supposed to be about braces. I had an impacted wisdom tooth on the bottom right, and still have a partially erupted wisdom tooth on the bottom left. My OMS wanted both teeth to be out of the way before he does my BSSO, so out came the impacted wisdom tooth, which was lying horizontally. Rather than remove the healthy partially erupted wisdom tooth, he and my ortho decided to remove a root treated first molar instead, and use my brace to fill the space with the second and third molars. Pretty nifty eh!
The jury is still out on the cause of the problems I had this morning. The Dr I saw today expained that it could be dry socket, or a pocket of infection. He actually praised me for keeping everything so clean, so that was nice. He used a syringe filled with corsodyl to flush out the extraction site six times. It bled a little and stank a lot, but didn't really hurt. He offered to numb me up if it got too painful, but I found that it just stung a bit. He then packed the little crater with this funny brown stuff which tastes foul. He said not to worry if it comes out as it only needs to be in for 24 hours to work. He then gave me three day course of strong antibiotics just to be safe, and told me to call if I had any more problems. The surgeon who removed my wisdom tooth came along to see how I was doing, which was really nice. I got to thank her for doing such a good job. She and the other Dr were having a joke, as the OMS who is doing my BSSO extracted the molar, and that's the one I ended up having the problem with! I have no idea why I had two different surgeons doing a tooth each, I'm assuming the female Dr is in training or something. They both said that my OMS is really good, and very experienced in advancement surgery, so that was good to hear
Once again, if you're about to have an extraction and are worried after reading this post, please don't be. I've had other extractions with no complications, and the Dr said the only reason I had trouble with this one was because it was so difficult. Even if you do have problems, I hope my post shows how easily they can be treated. One thing I've learned from this, if in doubt, call and ask. Everyone I spoke to today couldn't have been any nicer, and calling in was the right thing to do
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