Raleigh is the capital city of the state of North Carolina, the seat of Wake County and the second largest city in North Carolina behind Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees.
Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill make up the three historically primary cities of the Research Triangle metropolitan region. The regional nickname of "The Triangle" originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located between the cities of Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham and the three major research universities of UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, and NC State University. The Research Triangle region encompasses the U.S. Census Bureau's Combined Statistical Area (CSA) of Raleigh-Durham-Cary in the central Piedmont region of North Carolina. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina)
The socket is the hole in the bone where the tooth has been removed. After a tooth is pulled, a blood clot forms in the socket to protect the bone and nerves underneath. Sometimes that clot can become dislodged or dissolve a couple of days after the extraction. That leaves the bone and nerve exposed to air, food, fluid, and anything else that enters the mouth. This can lead to infection and severe pain that can last for five or six days.
Who is likely to get dry socket?
Some people may be more likely to get dry socket after having a tooth pulled. That includes people who:
smoke
have poor oral hygiene
have wisdom teeth pulled
have greater than usual trauma during the tooth extraction surgery
use birth control pills
have a history of dry socket after having teeth pulled
Rinsing and spitting a lot or drinking through a straw after having a tooth extracted also can increase your risk of getting dry socket.
What are the symptoms of dry socket?
If you look into the site where the tooth was pulled, you'll probably see a dry-looking socket. Instead of a blood clot, there will just be bone. The pain typically starts about two days after the tooth was pulled. Over time it becomes more severe and can radiate to your ear.
Other symptoms of dry socket include bad breath and an unpleasant smell and taste in your mouth.
How is dry socket treated?
You can take a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) such as aspirin or ibuprofen to ease the discomfort. Sometimes these over-the-counter medications aren't enough to relieve the pain. When that's the case, your doctor may prescribe a stronger medication or give you a nerve block.
Your dentist will clean the tooth socket, removing an...
If a woman is sexually active and she is fertile — physically able to become
pregnant — she needs to ask herself, "Do I want to become pregnant now?" If her
answer is "No," she must use some method of birth control (contraception).
If a woman does not want to get pregnant at this point in her life, does she
plan to become pregnant in the future? Soon? Much later? Never? Her answers to these
questions can determine the method of birth control that she and her male sexual
partner use — now and in the future.
There are a number of different ways to describe birth control. Terms include
contraception, pregnancy prevention, fertility control, and family planning. But
no matter what the process is called, sexually active people can choose from a
plethora of methods to reduce the possibility of their becoming pregnant.
Nevertheless, no method of birth control av...
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Wisdom teeth are the third set of molars that people get in their late teens or early twenties. Impacted wisdom teeth that only partially erupt allows for an opening for bacteria to enter around the tooth and cause an infection, which results in pain, swelling, jaw stiffness, and general illness. Before your wisdom teeth are pulled, the teeth and the surrounding tissue will be numbed with a local anesthetic. Recovery from wisdom tooth removal depends upon the difficulty of the extraction.
Smoking is an addiction. More than 430,000 deaths occur each year in the U.S. from smoking related illnesses. Secondhand smoke or "passive smoke" also harm family members, coworkers, and others around smokers. There are a number of techniques available to assist people who want to quit smoking.
Bad breath can result from poor oral hygien habits and may be a sign of other health problems. Bad breath, also called halitosis, can be made worse by the types of food you eat and other unhealthy lifestyle habits.
There are a number of different methods of birth control to include: barrier methods, IUDs, hormonal methods, natural methods, and surgical sterilization. Birth control methods can be reversible or permanent. In simple terms, all methods of birth control are based on either preventing a man's sperm from reaching and entering a woman's egg (fertilization) or preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the woman's uterus (her womb) and starting to grow.
If a woman is sexually active and she is fertile — physically able to become
pregnant — she needs to ask herself, "Do I want to become pregnant now?" If her
answer is "No," she must use some method of birth control (contraception).
If a woman does not want to get pregnant at this point in her life, does she
plan to become pregnant in the future? Soon? Much later? Never? Her answers to these
questions can determine the method of birth control that she and her male sexual
partner use — now and in the future.
There are a number of different ways to describe birth control. Terms include
contraception, pregnancy prevention, fertility control, and family planning. But
no matter what the process is called, sexually active people can choose from a
plethora of methods to reduce the possibility of their becoming pregnant.
Nevertheless, no method of birth control av...
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