MelanieB

The yellow colour doesn't always mean infection. Connective tissue looks whitish yellow and slimy when it is healing in gum tissue in your mouth. Two things would be happening if you had an infection: 1, you would have extremely foul breath. Ask your mom if she smelled anything yucky when she was looking in your mouth. Trust me, it's a strong smell and it smells bad - if you had infections she would have smelled it!. 2, the tissue surrounding the socket (not in or on the actual wound, but the healthy tissue around it) will be red and inflamed, not the nice healthy pink colour of the rest of your gums. So, if your healthy tissue isn't inflamed and you don't have horrible breath, then it's probably not infected.

You could however be developing a dry socket. I had three of my sockets go dry, but didn't know it, and they subsequently got infected. I was in pain for three weeks after my extractions. If it still hurts really bad after 6-7 days, go to the dentist and tell him/her to check for dry sockets. Ask your mom to look in the holes again and see if she sees anything inside them, or if they just look like gaping dark holes. You want to see gooey tissue in there - it means that it's healing. If there's no gooey stuff in there (white, yellow, red, whatever colour, just SOMETHING in there) then you might have a dry socket. If there is gooey stuff in there, then leave it alone, and let it heal.

Melanie