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HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofDentistry Volume2010,ArticleID479306,4pages doi:10.1155/2010/479306 CaseReport CaseReport:LateComplicationofaDrySocketTreatment Ramo′nManuelAlem′anNavas andMar′?aGuadalupeMart′?nezMendoza 1 2 1 DepartmentofOralandMaxillofacialSurgery,ZacamilNationalHospital,EvangelicalUniversityofElSalvador, SanSalvador00106-8000,ElSalvador 2 Facultyofdentistry,LatinAmericanUniversity,03100MexicoCity,Mexico CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoRamo′nManuelAlem′anNavas,dr.aleman@ Received21October2010;Accepted17December2010 AcademicEditor:J.D.Eick Copyright?2010R.M.Alem′anNavasandM.G.Mart′?nezMendoza.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the originalworkisproperlycited. Drysocketisoftentreatedindentistrywithintra-alveolardressings;theuseofthemremainscontroversialandhasbeenrelated tosomesidee?ectssuchasneuritis,foreignbodyreactions,andmyospherulosis.Wepresentacaseofanintra-alveolardressing (zinc-oxideeugenolpaste)thatmimickedatrigeminalneuralgiafor3yearsandcausedarightmaxillarychronicosteomyelitis andforeignbodyreactioninazonecorrespondingtothealveolusofthemaxillary?rstmolar.Thislong-termcomplicationwas successfullymanagedbycompleteremovaloftheforeignbodyandcurettageofthea?ectedarea. 1.Introduction mimickedatrigeminalneuralgiaduring3yearsandcauseda chronicosteomyelitiswithforeignbodyreaction. Drysocketisacommoncomplicationfollowingatoothex- traction, with a peak incidence in the 40–45 year-old age group.Ithasanincidenceof1%–4%forallroutinedental extractions and is more frequent infemale patients[1, 2]. It is a self-limiting disease that often will take 5–10 days todisappear,evenwithouttreatment.Thetreatmentofthis disease has commonly been divided into two groups: the nondressinganddressinginterventions.Theuseofdressing interventions is controversial because no scient