Robleado Dental Clinic

26/04/2026

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23/04/2026

22/04/2026

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Dry Socket

🔹 Also called alveolar osteitis / alveolitis sicca dolorosa
🔹 Loss/disintegration of extraction socket clot → exposed bone

Pathogenesis
🔹 Due to fibrinolysis of clot
🔹 Plasmin dissolves fibrin clot
🔹 Severe pain + foul odor, but usually no pus

Risk factors
🔹 Traumatic/difficult extraction
🔹 Especially impacted mandibular 3rd molar
🔹 Women, smokers
🔹 Oral contraceptives (estrogen ↑ fibrinolysis)
🔹 Also seen with Paget disease or post-radiotherapy

Clinical features
🔹 Starts day 2–3 after extraction
🔹 Lasts about 7–10 days
🔹 Severe throbbing pain radiating to ear/neck
🔹 Bad odor / bad taste
🔹 Empty dry socket with exposed necrotic bone
🔹 May have low-grade fever and ipsilateral nodes

Management
🔹 Palliative only
🔹 Gentle irrigation
🔹 Obtundent dressing: ZOE or iodoform gauze
🔹 Change dressing until pain subsides

Prevention
🔹 Atraumatic extraction technique is most important
🔹 Routine socket antibiotics not routinely recommended

High-yield pearl
🔹 Post-extraction day 2–3 severe pain + empty socket + foul odor + no pus = dry socket

20/04/2026

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16/04/2026

Follow up appliance after orthodontic treatment

16/02/2026

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If you want fast, smooth braces progress…
protect your brackets!✨

Simple as that.

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺.
Each one holds the wire that gently moves your teeth month by month.
Kapag may natanggal kahit isa — the system is interrupted.

Progress pauses.
Movement slows down.

Here’s what most people don’t realize:

Before you leave the clinic, your dentist makes sure that every bracket is properly cemented. 💯
They check the bonding.
They make sure it’s secure.
Hindi basta-basta nakakabit ang brackets.
They are designed to stay.

So if a bracket falls off days or weeks after your appointment, it’s usually because of external force — hard food, sticky candy, or using teeth as tools.

These small habits can break a bracket — and break your momentum.

Braces are not just about showing up to appointments.
It’s about daily responsibility.

Dentists only see you once a month.
The other 29–30 days?
You are the one protecting that progress.

Continuous progress happens when brackets stay intact.

So if you’re serious about your glow up…
Protect every bracket. Every day. ❤️

16/02/2026