Sorry to hear your extraction was not, so to speak, a clean break. My dentist has given me some twaddle about salt water washes, but in my family we place our faith in good Irish Whiskey. It saw my grandfather through Nile valley fever in the Sudan 1941, malaria in the Burma campaign and the tour de force was two bottles a day when the poor old sod had to fight off dengue fever and 200 fanatical drug-crazed insurgents in Borneo in 1949. He might have been lying - he died in 1973 of the DTs. Anyway I have laid in a litre of Jamiesons.