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Alveolitis
9 min read
Also known as: Dry socket · alveolar osteitis · Alveolitis sicca · Dolor post extractionem · post-extraction wound healing disorder
Your Body Is Speaking
The tooth is out. The extraction is over, the procedure done. What should follow now is healing — new tissue closing the gap, bone regenerating, calm after the storm. But that doesn't happen. Instead of closing, the wound stays open. The bony socket where the tooth sat becomes inflamed. The pain that should have eased after the extraction gets worse. It throbs, radiates, becomes unbearable. This is alveolitis — a wound healing disorder in which your body refuses to do what it normally does automatically: repair itself.
The dental explanation is clear: the blood clot that should have protected the wound has dislodged or never formed in the first place. The bone lies exposed, unprotected, vulnerable. But BodySignal goes further: Why isn't this wound healing? What inside you is resisting closure? Why does your system refuse regeneration here, of all places?
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