No stitches after tooth extraction?!
Question: No stitches after tooth extraction.?
My 15 yr old sister just got one of her teeth extracted and I'm 18 my mom took her but mom went to work and we have no house phone, no way to call the dentist.. unless i use the neighbors phone but shes bleeding ALOT like had blood drippin down her mouth and used up 4 cotton gauze in 2 hours. I looked at the back of her mouth and theres no stitches.. is that normal.? I thought you had to have stitches so your gums could heal.?Health Question & Answer
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Do you have any teabags.? Dunk it in *warm* not hot water, and have her bite down on that. The tannins in the tea will help with the clotting process.
Just have her keep pressure on that area, keep changing the cotton gauze. If she needs to rinse, let her rinse with warmish water but not spit out the water, just let it fall out of her mouth. You want the extraction site to clot, and if you spit too vigorously it must disrupt the clot from forming. It might look like a lot of blood, but it is probably mixing with her saliva so it looks much worse than it is.
Extractions don't always call for stitches. I work for a pediatric dentist, and I have never once in 9 years seen her do stitches after an extraction. If it is more of a more surgical procedure, than they usually do stitch them up after. Health Question & Answer
Just have her keep pressure on that area, keep changing the cotton gauze. If she needs to rinse, let her rinse with warmish water but not spit out the water, just let it fall out of her mouth. You want the extraction site to clot, and if you spit too vigorously it must disrupt the clot from forming. It might look like a lot of blood, but it is probably mixing with her saliva so it looks much worse than it is.
Extractions don't always call for stitches. I work for a pediatric dentist, and I have never once in 9 years seen her do stitches after an extraction. If it is more of a more surgical procedure, than they usually do stitch them up after. Health Question & Answer
I had this surgery done last year and the same thing happened to me! The only difference was that I think I did have stitches and it took a couple of weeks before it started bleeding. At first I know it can be scary to see all the blood so make sure she is calm, when she is anxious its going to bleed more. My mom started freaking out after the third day that it started bleeding so she called the surgeon in the middle of the night. He said to put warm tea bags on the area of the bleeding and wash the mouth with warm water first to clean everything out and then cold water. This helped for awhile, in the night it bled much less but it wouldn't stop, I went to the surgeon and he cotarized the area of the bleeding, It never bleed since then... now everything is going great and the teeth have come in perfectly :)Health Question & Answer
Hmm..
When you mean extracted..
Do you mean she had it surgically removed.?
Or just taken out.?
If she had them surgically removed (I mean, they put her to sleep and all that)
Then they should've put in stitches, yes.
If you mean they just numbed her and took 'em out, then no.
I had 14 teeth removed.
10 taken out,
4 surgically removed.
Hard to believe, but I have a SMALL mouth.
Anyway, if she just had them taken out, then no stitches are required.
In fact, using 4 things of gauze in 2 hours is very normal.
I hope I helped at least a bit, :/Health Question & Answer
When you mean extracted..
Do you mean she had it surgically removed.?
Or just taken out.?
If she had them surgically removed (I mean, they put her to sleep and all that)
Then they should've put in stitches, yes.
If you mean they just numbed her and took 'em out, then no.
I had 14 teeth removed.
10 taken out,
4 surgically removed.
Hard to believe, but I have a SMALL mouth.
Anyway, if she just had them taken out, then no stitches are required.
In fact, using 4 things of gauze in 2 hours is very normal.
I hope I helped at least a bit, :/Health Question & Answer
yeah it's normal for it to bleed alot in the first few hours.
they won't normally stitch it unless the root of the tooth is not loose. i had a tooth taken out a few months ago, and the tooth wasn't loose at all, but had a whole in it causing infection. so they had to take it out and stitch it. it bled for a few hours and i used heaps of gauze.
tell her not to play with it, keep changing the gauze with dry ones, keep pressure on it, and rinse it out gently if she needs to.
it should stop bleeding soon.Health Question & Answer
they won't normally stitch it unless the root of the tooth is not loose. i had a tooth taken out a few months ago, and the tooth wasn't loose at all, but had a whole in it causing infection. so they had to take it out and stitch it. it bled for a few hours and i used heaps of gauze.
tell her not to play with it, keep changing the gauze with dry ones, keep pressure on it, and rinse it out gently if she needs to.
it should stop bleeding soon.Health Question & Answer
OMG!!!!!!!! I HAD THIS HAPPEN TOO ME!!!! i had teeth pulled a couple of weeks ago, and that happened to me! like it was buckets and buckets of blood! i went to a store and got a packet of guas and used the whole packet!!! so i used a wet wash cloth. it's totally normal, don't worry, they usually never stitch it, unless it was like a wisdom teeth =)Health Question & Answer
yes its normal. is normal because her wisdom tooth was already completely out so he just needed to pull it. stitches are only needed when the tooth is still under the gum.Health Question & Answer
there should be stitches, i had them.. i'd call the dentist.Health Question & Answer
No, they don't give you stitches. The only thing you need to be worried about is dry sockets. Google it.Health Question & Answer