Effectiveness of platelet-rich fibrin in the management of pain and delayed wound healing associated with established alveolar osteitis (dry socket)
Dr. Nimish Aggarwal
INTRODUCTION
Dry socket or acute alveolar osteitis (AO) is a quite painful and debilitating condition for the patients who underwent extractions. [1,2] The phrase dry socket was first formulated by Crawford; [1] it has been previously described by various terminologies in the literature, [1,2] and it can be defined by Blum as the subsistence of
“postoperative pain in and around the site, which extraction increases in severity at any time between 1 and 3 days after the extraction, accompanied by a partially or totally disintegrated blood clot within the alveolar socket, with or without halitosis.” [3]