Is it okay to have no stitches after having 4 wisdom teeth pulled out?

I just got 4 wisdom teeth pulled out. My oral surgeon didn't give me any stitches. He already has instructed me to use the irrigating syringe to squirt water into my sockets so I can clean them. Most people who have gotten their wisdom teeth extracted were given stitches or dissolving stitches. I didn't get any so now I have big holes in my mouth and it gets annoying to clean. Won't it be a problem if my gums start closing up and food is still inside?

Is it okay to have no stitches after having 4 wisdom teeth pulled out?
I didn't have any stitches. It depends on whatever the doctor thinks I guess. I did fine without stitches. bitches get stitches. lol.
Reply:u dont need stitches,its more common to not have stitches after getting wisdom teeth removed. it may take a while but they will completely close up. they wont close with food in there, its a very slow process. took mine about 6 months to completely close up
Reply:I had all four out at the same time when I was 17. I didn't get any stitches either. I didn't have any problems with stuff getting closed up in there. Just keep it clean like you're supposed to and it'll be just fine. I'm 34 now, so I'm pretty sure that if something bad was gonna happen, it would have happened by now.
Reply:As long as you keep those holes relatively clean, don't worry about your gums closing up with food inside. I had 2 wisdom teeth pulled %26amp; I didn't get any stitches either. Just follow the post op instructions %26amp; you'll be fine in a couple of wks. It's been 18mo since mine were pulled %26amp; I survived. You can too.
Reply:sometimes wisdom teeth are stitched because it is a big hole, but when other teeth are extracted, there are no stitches. as long as you maintained a good blood clot for a few days, you will be ok. later, you should have the cavitations done. the non-biologic dentists and oral surgeons do not know to pull out the periodontal ligament and it creates a cavitation and eats away your jawbone over time.





EXTRACTIONS





Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.








CAVITATIONS





A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.





There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.



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