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Dry socket

Dry socket: Introduction

Dry socket: Exposure of jaw bone after a tooth extraction. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Dry socket is available below.

Symptoms of Dry socket

• Jaw pain
• Fever
• Swollen gums
• Facial swelling
• Swollen jaw lymph glands
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 6 symptoms of Dry socket

Treatments for Dry socket

• Socket irrigation
• Topical anti-inflammatory drugs
• Antibiotics
• Pain relief
• more treatments...»

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Dry socket?

• Failure to diagnose Dry socket
• Hidden causes of Dry socket (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Dry socket

Dry socket: Related Patient Stories

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Dry socket: Complications

Read more about complications of Dry socket.

Causes of Dry socket

• Tooth extraction
• Wisdom tooth extraction
• Impacted wisdom tooth extraction
• more causes...»

Read more about causes of Dry socket

More information about causes of Dry socket:

• Underlying causes of Dry socket

Disease Topics Related To Dry socket

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Dry socket:

• Alveolar osteitis
• Smoking
• Oral contraception
• Dental extraction
• more related diseases...»

Dry socket: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Face / Facial / Oral Health Specialists:
  • Oral Pathology
  • Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Facial Plastic Surgery
• Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists:
  • Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose & Throat)
  • Pediatric Otolaryngology (Child Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist)
  • Otology / Neurotology (Ear/Hearing Specialists)
  • Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck
• Dental Health Specialists:
  • General Dentistry
  • Pediatric Dentistry (Child Dental)
  • Public Health Dentistry
  • Endodontics
  • Oral Pathology (Mouth Specialist)
  • Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (Mouth / Facial Surgery)
  • Periodontics
  • Prosthodontics (Dental Prosthetics)
• more specialists...»

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Hospitals & Clinics: Dry socket

Research quality ratings and patient safety measures for medical facilities in specialties related to Dry socket:

• Dental Health -- Hospital Quality Ratings
• more hospital ratings...»

Hospital & Clinic quality ratings »

Choosing the Best Hospital: More general information, not necessarily in relation to Dry socket, on hospital performance and surgical care quality:

• 50 Best Hospitals Report
• Outstanding Patient Experience Award Winning Hospitals
• Women's Health Best Hospitals
• Patient Safety
• Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study (2009)

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Dry socket

Medical research articles related to Dry socket include:

• Alveolitis
• Effect estimates and methodological quality of randomized controlled trials about prevention of alveolar osteitis following tooth extraction: a systematic review
• Wisdom tooth removal
• Having a tooth removed
• Postextraction Problems
• Approach to the Dental Patient
• The time to onset and overall analgesic efficacy of rofecoxib 50 mg: a meta-analysis of 13 randomized clinical trials
• more research...»

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Prognosis for Dry socket

More about prognosis of Dry socket

Research about Dry socket

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Clinical Trials for Dry socket

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Dry socket include:

• Antibiotic Efficacy in Third Molar Surgery - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - IV Preoperative antibiotic or placebo
• more trials...»

Read more about Clinical Trials for Dry socket

Dry socket: Broader Related Topics

• Dental conditions
• Oral conditions
• Head conditions
• more types...»

Types of Dry socket

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Definitions of Dry socket:

A condition sometimes occurring after tooth extraction, particularly after traumatic extraction, resulting in a dry appearance of the exposed bone in the socket, due to disintegration or loss of the blood clot. It is basically a focal osteomyelitis without suppuration and is accompanied by severe pain (alveolalgia) and foul odor. (Dorland, 28th ed) - (Source - Diseases Database)

Inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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