Dental assistant here 😌

Usually bad breath in dentistry can mean different things. Considering you just got your tooth extracted, there could be an infection. The dentists should of given you an antibiotic after to prevent infection. 24 hours after the procedure you’re able to swish with warm salt water, but you don’t want to actually do the “swishing” motion. You want to move your head side to side to swish and just lean over the sink and let it dribble out. If you do the swishing it’s auction and could dislodge that blood clot. The warm salt water rinses will help heal your mouth quicker, but call the office and ask for them to send a antibiotic to your pharmacy. You could have food as well in the socket, but you would be able to feel it and just doing the rinses will help clean it and get anything out. I don’t recommend using tea or coconut oil though. It doesn’t do much to kill the bacteria, or help with the infection and odor. 😌

You may have food stuck in the voids where the teeth were. You should get an irrigation syringe to flush the sockets with water. On my follow up appointment for wisdom tooth removal they gave me one

Is it extremely painful? Do you smoke?

I got mines pulled. Don’t be scared to brush your teeth and the places that got pulled, bc it leaves and area for food to get stuck in which causes the bad breath. Just brush where you got them pulled lightly . Or even gargle salt water after each meal or snack to help

If there is a bad smell, there is more than likely an infection.

Hopefully in the AM they can prescribe you some antibiotics.

Until then, if you have any pain, take some Tylenol + soak and bite down on a black tea bag. Just regular black tea. Off brand or whatever. Nothing fancy!

If you have coconut oil on hand, you can swish that around your mouth for a solid 10-20 mins (a long time, I know, but it will help.).

If it was dry socket you’d be feeling some pain, I’d imagine, but maybe not.