Dry socket can develop if after a tooth is removed, a protective blood clot doesn’t form in the open space. Dry socket can also develop if this blood clot becomes dislodged from your gums.

Dry socket, or alveolar osteitis, is a common complication of tooth extraction. It develops when the blood clot that protects the wound disintegrates or breaks loose, exposing the nerves and bone ...

Sometimes the clot can become dislodged. If that happens, you’ll experience the painful complication known as a dry socket, or alveolar osteitis.Dry socket is uncomfortable and delays healing.

Dry socket is the common name for alveolar osteitis, inflammation within an empty tooth socket. To prevent it after a tooth extraction, people should avoid smoking, alcohol, and suction. In this ...

Footballer's dry cough that became 'violent' turned out to be a blood clot in the lung Crystal Palace player Hollie Olding, 23, was "extremely scared" for her life after a blood clot formed in her ...

The clot did not help researchers advance medical knowledge, she said. But its photo has captivated people in ways medical journal articles often do not since being published in the New England ...