The body goes through various stages of healing after a tooth extraction to help the surgical area heal. This is key to speeding up natural recovery and ensuring the proper steps are taken to optimize healing. The timeline for healing after tooth removal is typically relatively straightforward. The initial healing phase is blood clot formation at the extraction site, which is essential for healing. The second stage, tissue repair, is where the gum tissue and bone slowly heal, and new tissue forms over the lesson. Within a few weeks, the soft tissue will start to close, and the bone tissue will remodel and, with time, will return to the previous regular structure. The last stage will take several months based on how involved the extraction is.