dry socket

American  

noun

Dentistry.

1. a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.

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Example Sentences

The day after I had it out, I got a thing called dry socket, and that was four weeks of hell.

From The Guardian

Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream.

From Literature

“I was OK for a while, then I relapsed. One pill and I was hooked. My dentist gave it to me. Then I got a dry socket and one led to many.”

From Washington Times

I looked up at her for the first time, my eyes burning in dry sockets.

From Project Gutenberg