It's about a week since I got my second extraction. This time it was the right first pre-molar. Surprisingly though the area of extraction was less swollen and bruised than during my first extraction. It's probably because it took less time (5 seconds) to pulled this tooth out compared to the first tooth (30 seconds). I guess my teeth were very tight and so it was hard to remove the first one.
The only advice I can give after having my second extraction is to not bite on the gauze after the recommended time (~40 minutes) to do so. I did this the first time because I thought the area of extraction was bleeding like crazy. Wrong mistake. The reason it was bleeding a lot was because: 1) the saliva mixed with some of the blood made it seem like it was bleeding a lot 2) the continued pressure of the gauze interrupted the blood clotting and lead to a little more bleeding.
This time around I stopped biting on the gauze after 40 minutes and everything became fine. No more bleeding. The only problem was constant drooling but that eventually went away.
