Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery

Dry Socket Pictures | Pictures of Alveolar Osteitis

Posted on August 25th, 2011 in Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral medicine and radiology

Here are various images of Dry Socket seen in Dental Practice.

Which presents with the following symptoms:

• Severe Radiating Pain to the Ear or other parts of face.
• Socket is devoid of clot or contains brown, friable clot which is easily washed out.
• Foul smell: Due to Food debris accumulated in the socket which starts disintegrating.
• On washing away of the food debris the bare pocket floor can be seen which is extremely sensitive to touch.
• Regional Lymphnodes: Tender and enlarged.
• Occasionally Pyrexia is seen.

dry socket formation

Dry Socket With Necrotic Bone

Dry socket with unhealed Socket

Dry Socket with Slough formation

Dry Socket in the upper left 2nd molar