After you've gotten a tooth extracted from your mouth, you'll need to take special care of the wounded area in order to prevent dry sockets. The pain from dry sockets typically emerge 2 to 4 days after the tooth is extracted, and the phenomenon has an occurrence rate of approximately 2% among all tooth extractions. Basically, your jawbone becomes inflamed from either a partial or total loss of the blood clot that usually sits within the tooth socket after an extraction.
