Funny. I remember casually dismissing dry socket after wisdom teeth (and a few other) extractions as just some funny name for a condition someone else got. Pre-internet of course, and the biggest warning was “don’t smoke or drink alcohol”. Yeah right. But since I have developed liver cirrhosis in the intervening years, I think you still got the better end of the deal.
Thank you for this.
No problem.
Huh. I haven’t seen one of your posts in years, I’m sure, and now you pop back up on my radar to thank me for a post. 
No offense taken at the joke, because, yeah, I went back to the google to check the spelling. But it’s calculus as derleth advises.
It’s still there, and it’s abscessed so the doc told me to keep my damn dirty hands out of my mouth (paraphrasing) until he can extract it. Salt water gargles and rinses for now.
And I spend 20 minutes a day on my teeth. Flossing, gum stimulation inside and outer jaws, peroxide rinse, Listerine rinse and then right before bed chlorohexidine. I have shitty teeth, always have, but google this for yourself, it is not preposterous at all.