Dry socket usually starts between 3-5 days. If it started within that time period, it may be a dry socket. I could not say for sure unless I saw it clinically. Did your dentist irrigate the socket before looking? Were you in pain when you went? I have noticed a lot that food gets packed into sockets and can hide problems, or look like granulation tissue.
Thank you for responding to me. Someone at work told me I have a dry socket. Is this possible. I told her that I never knew that a dry socket could be causing this type of thing. She told me that she used to work for an oral surgeon & that it most definitely could. I told her that my dentist said that a clot was in there very nicely and granulation was forming. What is your opinion?
What you describe does sound like it could be a trigeminal nerve problem, but I am not sure how your dentist could have hit it....its rather far away anatomy. I would suggest finding a nerve specialist.
Hope you get better! Let me know how it goes.