Severe pain is the most important symptom in a patient's that's having complications.
病人凡是得了并发症的其重要的特征就是疼得要命。
A dry socket will usually occur three or more days after an extraction.
干槽症通常是在拔牙的后三天或者长些时候发生的。
If the pain is severe and if aspirin5 isn't effective for controlling the pain;
假如疼的厉害，阿司匹林是起不了作用的，
it's very likely that an osteitis has developed.
那么就很可能得了骨炎。
How do you treat an osteitis, Doctor?
医生， 骨炎怎样治疗？
An osteitis is very easy to treat.
骨炎很容易治疗。
I use a strip of iodoform gauze that has been cut to the correct size to fill the extraction socket.
可以用一块碘仿的大小正好的纱布，填进拔了牙的牙槽里，
I dampen the gauze with a small amount of eugenol and insert it into the extraction site.
然后将纱布沾上少量丁香酚，塞到拔了牙的地方。
What does this do, Doctor?
医生，这样起什么作用呢？
This does three things;
有三点作用：
1. It reduces or eliminates the pain.
止疼
2. It has an antibiotic6 effect.
起抗生素的作用
3. It keeps food from packing into the open, healing socket.
防止食物进到空的，正在康复中的牙槽里。
What about removing the dressing7? What procedure do you follow?
怎样把塞进去纱布取出来呢？然后怎样做？
I'll ask the patient to return on the next day so that I can remove the dressing and irrigate8 the socket with sterile9 saline solution.
我会叫病人第二天回来，由我给他把塞进去的纱布取出来，用已消过毒的生理盐水洗静牙槽。
Then, I replace the dressing.
然后换上纱布。
I'll repeat this procedure daily or every other day for seven to ten days.
以后在7到10天内每天或每隔一天照样处理一次。
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