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Subject: Re: Mysterious gum thing at extraction site

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Jim

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Date Posted: 07:48:42 07/21/04 Wed
In reply to: Garizona 's message, "Mysterious gum thing at extraction site" on 07:42:49 07/21/04 Wed

I bet that's a piece of bone fragment.

I know there was someone here who got a tooth extracted and a part of the tooth was left behind, and it became very infected. It doesn't sound like yours has become infected, so I don't know if it will, or what all needs to be present for an infection to occur (meaning if just a bone fragment needs to be there or if there needs to be something else), but you definitely should mention it.

>Here's a weird question for you extraction veterans
>out there... A month ago I had a partially erupted
>lower wisdom tooth removed. The socket seems to have
>healed up nicely, but on the edge of the socket area,
>on the tongue edge, there's now a really sharp pointy
>piece of bone/gum sticking up. It doesn't hurt, but
>the gum tissue feels super thin and I'm concerned that
>the pointy bone or whatever's below it is going to
>poke through one of these days. I'd thought it was
>just the part of the gum that used to partially cover
>the wisdom tooth, but it seems to be tilted too far
>toward the tongue for that.
>
>This is my first extraction so I have no idea if this
>is common. Has anybody had something like this? Does
>the bone eventually wear down, or the does gum tissue
>build up over it? Is it possibly a fragment of the
>old tooth and not bone? (He did have to bust the
>tooth up to get it out, and a small leftover fragment
>of tooth popped out last week, much to my surprise).
>I'll mention it at my next appointment a week from
>today (my dentist is also my ortho), but in the
>meantime if anybody can help solve this little
>mystery, I'd be most appreciative.
>
>Thanks
>Gary

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Subject	Author	Date
Mystery solved.	Garizona	10:57:41 07/22/04 Thu