How do you stop a pulled tooth from bleeding

The socket contains a blood clot that protects the underlying bone and supports healing. Sit upright, place folded sterile gauze directly over the socket, and maintain firm uninterrupted pressure with your teeth for the period advised by the treating clinician.

Keep your head raised, rest, and avoid vigorous rinsing, spitting, smoking, alcohol, strenuous activity, and drinking through a straw during the early healing period. If gauze becomes soaked, replace it with fresh gauze and repeat direct pressure; do not keep lifting it to inspect the socket.

Contact the extracting dentist if bleeding remains heavy after repeated direct pressure, the socket fills with blood, or you feel weak or faint. Emergency assessment is needed for uncontrolled bleeding, breathing difficulty, or swelling that is rapidly increasing.

Ask how long to maintain pressure, whether your medicines or a bleeding disorder alter the plan, and which number to call outside clinic hours. Ask what clot-protecting instructions apply to the particular extraction.