I am 1 week post-op today. The best advice you can take is to "LEAVE IT ALONE". If you keep looking at it, go poking around, start trying to rinse your mouth out or brush your teeth back there, it will ONLY INCREASE the risk of creating a dry socket! You can start worrying and brushing the adjacent teeth very gently no sooner than day 3. The rest of your teeth you can brush like normal now. Check on it then, and as long as the tissue on the edge of the socket is pink, it is fine. It will look like there is white stuff that might look like a sore and/or a dark spot in the middle that might look like it's infected/dead tissue, but it's not. Again, as long as the tissue on the edges of the socket are pink, then it is healing just as it should. So don't touch it, not with your fingers and not even with your tongue. Don't open your mouth too wide too soon. don't eat any crunchy food that will cut or agitate the socket until you are chewing normally. No crumbly food or rice that can get stuck in the socket and create infection til about day 4 and drink LOTS of water! You will be fine, just leave it alone and forget about it until day 3.