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Complications occur during or after a procedure. Complications of having a tooth removed include:
- Damage to other teeth. This might happen when your dentist removes your tooth, particularly if the teeth next to the one being removed have a large filling or crown.
- Sensitive teeth. The teeth adjacent to the removed one may feel sensitive for several weeks.
- Poor healing. If the blood doesn’t clot in your tooth socket, it won’t heal properly. This is called dry socket and can be very painful. Dry socket is more likely if you smoke or take oral contraceptives. If this happens, see us immediately. We’ll apply a dressing to the socket and prescribe antibiotics.
- A nerve injury. You might experience tingling, pins and needles, or numbness in the gum near the tooth socket, typically due to bruising of the nerves. This usually resolves quickly.
Tooth “impaction” occurs when a tooth cannot come into its normal position in the mouth, remaining buried under gum and possibly bone tissue. The most commonly impacted tooth is the 3rd molar (wisdom tooth).
For example:
One of our cases from a patient who had an extraction.
INR – Last blood test to determine how soon your blood will clot.
Blood thinners such as Warfarin or Clopidogrel are used for various medical conditions as anti-coagulants (preventing blood from clotting). They’re commonly part of stroke or heart attack prevention strategies in patients with cardiovascular disease, or for those prone to thrombosis (blood clots) or pulmonary embolisms (clots in the lungs). They’re also used for patients with artificial heart valves or temporarily for those who’ve recently undergone knee replacement or similar surgeries. This includes low-dose aspirin, often prescribed as a mild blood thinner.
An issue might arise if an invasive procedure, such as a tooth extraction or gum surgery, causes bleeding. Since your blood may not clot normally, it might be difficult to stop the bleeding during such procedures.
Aspirin is a potent blood