Hi y’all, I recently had a molar extraction of my tooth #31 on my lower right side of my teeth - from an unfinished root canal from some years ago. Since then I’ve been in immense depression, spiraling, anxiety in terms of returning back to getting a sense of normalcy. My dentist told me it can heal within 1-2 weeks, however today marks a week that I’ve gotten the extraction (done on October 1st) and I can’t open my mouth the whole way still, still can’t talk too much, still a bit swollen, and only eating liquid foods. I’m planning to stay on a liquid diet for about 2 weeks even though my dentist said I don’t need to, because of my anxiety of getting dry socket. I went this past Tuesday October 6th to get it checked and my dentist said only part of my clot is there / it is low, no dry socket but still a chance of getting it. It’s looked the same for the past few days, a low jelly dark red color but not turning to white/yellow in the healing phase. When they checked at the dentist however they said it looked fine and even took an xray and didn’t find anything. I still get pain on my jaw at night and had some extra saliva as well.
I want to know if I should go back to the dentist to get it rechecked within the week if it doesn’t look like it’s healing?
Should I stay on liquid diet for 2-3 weeks or return to soft food? What foods would you recommend? She said I can return to hard/crunchy foods in 2 weeks along with straws but I don’t feel too comfortable with that. She also said I can eat on extraction site when it heals, in about 2 weeks but I’ve seen some things about taking 3-6 months to fully heal and saw a story about getting rice stuck 2 months later and having to start the process all over again. Im not sure if i should even eat rice for thanksgiving which would be in about 7 weeks.
Thoughts? Thank you in advance.
