Sharp bone on inside of jaw after wisdom tooth extraction???

i had my bottom right wisdom tooth extracted about a week ago. the stitches are now out and there's definitely a hole where the impacted tooth used to be. however, on the inside of the gum (a little flap separating the hole and this other slit)... it's really sharp. it seems as if it's exposed bone... but the stitches were no where near this slit. is this normal?





it irritates the side of my tongue when it rubs against it b/c it is so sharp... and even more when i talk. any answers?

Sharp bone on inside of jaw after wisdom tooth extraction???
That is ok and really common, especially if the tooth was impacted. What the dentist had to do with an impaction is chisel the tooth out. That can leave fragments of the tooth behind in the gum that will eventually work their way to the surface... guess what, yours did. At this point if it is bothering you too much, providing you can get a hold of it, you can pull it out with tweezers. If not continue to use the warm salt water rinse that the dentist recommended, to decrease the swelling around the previous tooth site. Honestly this is really very normal
Reply:I had a similar thing happen. it adventually got better but for awhile it was weird. Bring it up at your follow-up appointment
Reply:i experienced that , it is called a spur, and although it can work it's way loose on its own, it may be better to go back to the dentist.
Reply:No ,it is not normal.When they extract the impacted tooth,they drill the bone around it to make some room to wigle the tooth out.The bone gets very thin and breaks during pulling and pushing.You have a broken peace of bone just sitting there.You have to go back and ask them to get it out,so the area will heal.
Reply:If you followed the post-op instructions, you don't have "dry socket." That's the worst possible result, and if you had it you would know it.





It may well be a fragment of bone that's dislodged itself and migrated through the gum. Call your dentist and ask what they can do about it. In any case, it's not horribly serious.





I had a similar problem when I had my wisdom teeth removed (all 4 of them... 35 years ago), it finally pulled out of the gum after a few weeks.
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