Dry socket occurs most often after tooth extraction, patients can prevent dry socket through daily care, dietary adjustment, medication assistance and other ways.
1. Daily care: patients are prohibited from brushing, gargling, spitting, avoiding tongue touching the wound, protecting the blood clot in the extraction socket, and prohibiting chewing with the extracted side of the tooth within 24 hours after tooth extraction, in order to reduce the incidence of dry socket.
2. Adjustment of diet: patients pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of the diet, to light, soft food, do not eat hard, spicy, stimulating food, at the same time, appropriate to drink more water, to keep the oral cavity moist, try to avoid smoking, drinking and so on.
3. medication: patients after tooth extraction, can take antibiotics under the guidance of the doctor, such as ceftazidime, metronidazole, tinidazole, amoxicillin, etc.; pain symptoms are obvious patients can take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, aspirin, and other medications for the treatment to prevent the dry socket, and so on.
It is recommended that patients strictly follow the doctor’s instructions, do not change the dose of drugs or private abuse of drugs, pay attention to maintaining oral hygiene in life, and pay attention to observing the changes in the affected area, if any abnormalities in a timely manner, such as medical treatment.