Table 4.

Demographics and characteristics of 19 patients with dry socket.

S/number	Age/sex	Oral hygiene status	Systemic illness	Tooth	Indication	Mode	Antibiotic	Oral hygiene instruction
1	F/45	Poor	None	Upper Rt 8	Impacted	Routine	Zinnat/Diclofenac	Not stated
2	F/47	Fair	Hypertensive	Upper Rt 4	Supernumerary	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Noncompliant
3	M/22	Fair, smoke, alcohol	None	Lower Lt 8	Pericoronitis	Surgical	amoxyl/flagyl	Compliant
4	M/33	Fair	None	Lower Lt 6	Irreversible pulpitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Not stated
5	F/45	Poor	None	Lower Lt 8	Irreversible Pulpitis	Surgical	amoxyl/flagyl	Not stated
6	F/35	Not stated, alcohol	None	Lower Lt 8	Impacted	Surgical	amoxyl/flagyl	Noncompliant
7	M/30	Fair	None	Lower Rt 7	Irreversible pulpitis	Surgical	amoxyl/flagyl	Not stated
8	F/30	Fair	Pregnant	Lower Rt 6	Acute apical periodontitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Compliant
9	F/45	Fair	None	Upper Rt 8 and Lt 5	Retained roots	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Not stated
10	M/35	Fair, smoke, alcohol	None	Lower Lt 6	Dentoalveolar abscess	Routine	Clindamycin	Compliant
11	F/37	Fair	None	Lower Rt 6	Acute apical periodontitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Noncompliant
12	F/57	Fair	None	Upper Rt 87 and Lt 6	Retained roots	Routine	unasyn/flagyl	Compliant
13	M/30	Fair	None	Lower Lt 8	Irreversible pulpitis	Surgical	amoxyl/flagyl	Not compliant
14	M/62	Poor	None	Lower Lt 5	Dentoalveolar abscess	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Compliant
15	F/18	Not stated	None	Lower Rt 7	Irreversible pulpitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Compliant
16	F/31	Fair	None	Lower Rt 6	Acute periodontitis	Routine	Clindamycin	Compliant
17	M/26	Fair	Peptic ulcer disease	Lower Lt 8	Acute apical periodontitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Noncompliant
18	F/28	Good	Peptic ulcer disease	Upper Rt 8	Acute apical periodontitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	NonCompliant
19	F/34	Fair	None	Upper Rt 8	Reversible pulpitis	Routine	amoxyl/flagyl	Not compliant