Bone Bent After Tooth Extraction

Hello, i had an exposed wisdom tooth extracted, bottom right, 11 days ago. Tooth did not come out easily and had to be cut in half. 3 days later I went back to dentist with pain due to sharp fragment protruding from gum into mouth and scratching side of tongue. Dentist found fragment to be sharp bone, still attached, so drilled it back. 6 days later I went back, as bone was still scratching tongue. This time he cut gum so could drill larger area flat then stitched up wound.
My confusion is around how a bone "bends" into a sharp point? Is this possible?

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Hello, Liv! How are you doing? Has there been any change?

It really isn't that is bends into a sharp point, according to NIH listings. It is actually that the extraction itself causes small sharp fragments of the bone to splinter. That is likely the reason you needed to see your dentist about it twice, in actuality, they should have removed all of it the first time, rather than just drilling it down.

If it had been left alone, the entire splinter would have eventually poked up through and it would have come out as one solid, long piece, in most cases, when it finally all broke off.

I've experienced this myself, it is annoying, but is an entirely natural process. You may have more of them that work their way out in the future. I've had it happen months after having a tooth extracted.

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