Alveolitis actually represents a disorder due to incorrect healing of the wound after tooth extraction. Specifically, it is a problem that arises from the decomposition of a blood clot at the site of the extracted tooth. It is also called "dry socket".
Occurrence and symptoms of alveolitis
It usually occurs in patients who have tooth gangrene or pulpitis. The exact cause of alveolitis itself is still unknown. There is some trauma during tooth extraction which is the reason why some experts believe alveolitis occurs. Others believe it may occur due to possible infection and allergy or perhaps when the procedure is performed on a person with a weakened immune system. However, most believe that the problem occurs mainly due to external factors.
That is, patients themselves through carelessness and non-compliance with the advice of the dentist provoke alveolitis. Consuming food and rinsing the mouth immediately after tooth extraction, as well as a complete or partial lack of oral hygiene, create a favorable ground for the easy penetration of bacteria into the wound. As a result, the blood clot can decompose, creating a very unpleasant problem.
How to recognize the occurrence of alveolitis?
- First symptom: Pain that occurs a few days from extraction (extraction) of the tooth. Although it can also occur a few days later. The pain is strong and intense, especially at night when our body is in a lying-horizontal position. The pain can spread to the temple or ear, so analgesics and pain medications do not help.
- Second symptom: absence of a healthy, vital clot.. The alveoli are filled with a decomposed clot. It becomes gray in color and has an unpleasant odor, and it is easily removed with tweezers (alveolitis exudativa) or the alveoli are completely empty (alveolitis sicca).
Alveolitis therapy
When we want to solve this problem, in the fastest and most effective way, it is important to act on time. X-ray images after coming to DOC Bandić will show whether the presence of a residual root, foreign body, or parts of the remaining alveolar bone in the wound is excluded. Only then can the appropriate treatment be applied. Alveolitis therapy actually involves several stages of action, including the removal of the decomposed clot under the influence of local anesthesia.
After that, the wound is rinsed with a saline solution and a medicament with an analgesic effect is applied, which is absorbed after some time. The goal of alveolitis therapy is to form a vital, elastic, and compact clot that should fully fill the wound and reduce the unpleasant pain to the patient.
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