horrible taste in mouth 4 days after tooth extraction

gnenema

I had a absece tooth and as soon as I started my antibiotics it seems like I started getting a fowl smell and taste in my mouth. Like it was draining. I had that tooth pulled and dentist said it should go away. It's been thee days and the taste and smell is still there.

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I have needed to remove my wisdom teeth for honestly about a year now. The oldest and most impacted of the four became infected seemingly overnight. So I went to the doctor and they said that my wisdom tooth was abcessed and needed to come out. All of this was fine until they removed it and I was bombarded with a horrible taste. It chocked me as they put in the stitches. The doctor said it was the medicine but it's been like 6 hours after the surgery and this taste is still present. I'm assuming it's from the infection. It's horrible.

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Does anyone have an update??

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I had my upper wisdom tooth taken out yesterday and have been experiencing a horrible metallic like taste and smell in my mouth. Have used an anti septic mouth wash but it hasn't removed the taste or smell. Will try salt water.

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WisdomTeethSuck

My right side of my cheek has become very swollen and it basically extracts a fluid that gives off a small amount of blood and tastes horrible. It has been about 80 hours since my extraction. My lower jaw hurts and under my chin is very sore. I have been rinsing out with salty hot water. I gave my oral surgeon a call and explained to him what has been going on with me. He told me its too early to determine anything extreme yet. I was told to give him a call monday if the bleeding would continue from my cheek at all.

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The same thing happing to me rn what do I do

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I had wisdom tooth extracted at the bottom, afterwards I have had a throbbing pain it's like I've been in a traffic accident. I found painkillers worked for about 3 hours then the pain returns so I'm on these for almost a week now. The smell started after 4 days, absolute stench that will not go away with mouth wash, salt water mouth wash or cleaning the teeth. After desperation got a syringe filled with warm water and kept flushing the socket, eventually a mouthful a gunk that stank to high heaven came out and my mouth has been fresh smelling ever since. I have noticed the gum pain is starting to get less also now after doing it so possibly agitating the gum. Cannot see any sign of an infection

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I had all 4 of my wisdoms out, my bottom 2 were impacted. My mouth also had a really gross taste. it was't my entire mouth but if my toungue touched the area where my wisdoms were removed it has a disgusting taste.
i tried doing salt water but it wasnt helping me, apparently diluted mouth wash does the trick. but you have to rinse into the back of your cheeks fairly roughly to get all the gunk and left over foods out.
after four to five times i finally got just about everything out and it doesnt taste as bad. Im sure if you do it everyday then it the taste will die out in two or three days.

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thank you so much!!!

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I bet it was dry socket

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This is exactly is happening to me !!! How long did you recover from all these symptoms ?!

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I had 6 teeth pulled under twilight sedation - #'s 1,4,15,18,20,30

Since day 2, there has been a lingering nastiness. From where it seems like it is coming from is #15-18-20
#15 cracked into my sinus cavity, and I have a negative pressure in my mouth which is horrible by the way, and I hope none of you have to go through that healing (takes about 2 months)

But, most of the posters are right. It is either an infection draining back in to your mouth or food caught in the open holes even if there are stitches causing a stagnant depression. Kind of looks like a clearish yellow ooze with a bad taste and smell. Just keep taking the antibiotics and take it easy on the pain killers even though they are great in a pinch, and go to your followup appointment. Thank god I have mine tomorrow (10/29) and hope there is good news about the healing. Hopefully it doesn't suck too horribly.

Random question for anyone still following this thread, anyone feel sick because of the taste and feeling? I'm not talking about the thought of the taste or the thought of the smell. Like physically sick and drained...or feeling terrible because of the liquid-ish diet?

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind jello, mashed potatoes, and soups, but damnit man I want a burger!

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Did you ever find out what it was? Was it a dry socket?

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It wasn't a dry socket from what the dentists told me. It was food particles that ended up getting lodged in the extraction holes and on the stitches. Once the stitches came out, and they irrigated it, all was fine.

Still waiting on the damn sinus thing to close back up...

Tip for anyone who has had the sinus cavity breached, mouthwash carefully if it hasn't closed up. Especially if that mouthwash has any sort of alcohol in it....it will go up in to your sinus cavity and burn like no other.

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Cliff notes: Use the syringe your oral surgeon provided to wash out your extraction site

There is built up food and possibly blood stuck in the socket where your tooth was extracted, especially in impacted wisdom tooth scenarios. Thing of those sockets as craters for debris to be caught. And think of how nasty it should smell because most likely you haven't brushed these areas yet.... Your Oral surgeon should have provided you with a syringe to force this gunk out with warm winter and a hint of mouth wash.

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