When you have a tooth extracted, you can free yourself from the discomfort that you may have been feeling for a long time, and potentially protect the rest of your teeth from a spreading infection.
However, tooth extractions can involve a fair amount of trauma to the mouth, and you have to be careful after the surgery that you don’t develop any complications. For example, dry socket is a painful condition that comes from mismanagement of healing. If you want to know more about dry socket and how you can prevent it, here’s a guide that may be able to help you.
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