Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket is a general term used for a kind of wisdom tooth complication.
The actual medical term for a wisdom tooth dry socket is "Acute Alveolar Osteitis", which translate to English is "Sudden Imflammation of bones that support a tooth".

So what really is wisdom tooth dry socket? Imaging after having your wisdom tooth removal surgery operation, what left on the formal place where the wisdom tooth was.

After a wisdom tooth removal surgery, the hole or what we call "socket" will be filled with blood.

For most people, the blood will filled up the wisdom tooth socket. Over few days, new gum tissues will start growing over the blood clot in the wisdom socket.

Unfortunately, some people will be left with a empty wisdom tooth socket. An empty wisdom tooth socket, or more correctly, a wisdom tooth dry socket is formed.

The reasons for the forming of Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket are

1. The blood is not filling up the wisdom tooth socket after a wisdom tooth removal operation.
2. Even if the flood filled up the socket, under some reasons, the blood clot dissolved prematurely before new gum tissue grows on the blood clot.

What are the complication of a formed Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket? Well, here is the list.

1. Pain, obviously.
2. Bad breath and foul smelling.
3. Bad taste on mouth.

The treatments for Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket include -

1. Apply medication on the dry socket itself - Since a Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket is not an infection, antibiotic is not useful here.
   Normally some narcotic pain killers are used here.
2. Topical Anesthetic sometimes are used to relief the pain.
3. Stop drinking carbonated drinks.
4. Stop using straws for the fear of worsening the dry socket by water pressure.
5. Stop smoking because the nicotine will worsen the dry socket.

Fortunately, a Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket is often self-healed over a longer time. But under very rare condition where the dry socket can't heal itsef, another operation may be needed to make the socket bleed again and thus making the blood clot inside the Wisdom Tooth Dry Socket.