DRY SOCKET Definition & Meaning

dry socket

Dentistry.

a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.

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The day after I had it out, I got a thing called dry socket, and that was four weeks of hell.

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Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream.

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“I was OK for a while, then I relapsed. One pill and I was hooked. My dentist gave it to me. Then I got a dry socket and one led to many.”

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I looked up at her for the first time, my eyes burning in dry sockets.

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