Dry Socket Pictures | Pictures of Alveolar Osteitis

Dry Socket Pictures | Pictures of Alveolar Osteitis

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