Prevention of dry socket needs to do: choose a regular medical institution before tooth extraction, reduce surgical trauma and protect the blood clot during tooth extraction, maintain oral hygiene and avoid strenuous exercise after tooth extraction.
1. Before extraction: choose regular medical institutions, and smokers need to stop, taking anticoagulant drugs, also need to stop under the guidance of the doctor.
2. During the extraction surgery: to minimize the surgical trauma and the shedding or non-dissolution of blood clots, the alveolar fossa can be filled with a variety of protective clots, anti-infection substances, such as iodoform sponge.
3. After extraction: avoid strenuous exercise after extraction, pay more attention to rest, and maintain good oral hygiene.
Dry socket often appears after tooth extraction surgery, the specific etiology is unknown, the main feature is the extraction of teeth 2 ~ 3 days after the extraction of severe pain, pain may radiate to the ear temporal, head, jaw area, and with or without obvious putrid smell, this disease is self-limiting, but timely treatment can relieve the pain, shorten the course of the disease, so patients should actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment.