I doubt you would be able to see the extraction sites well by just "looking
in", and suspect you may not be able to discern what you are seeing anyway.
Get your daughter in to the surgeon who did the procedure.  He will be able
to advise you properly.  If the pain started recently, she may be
experiencing dry-socket pain.  This is easily treated with a medicated
paste.  If the pain has been from day-one, something else is going on.  It
may be just post-surgical normal pain, and it may not.  Get her evaluated.
Unless the pain is from another tooth, the pain will go away.  Her surgeon
can determine if he can make the pain go away sooner.

Best wishes.

Other than warm or cold packs (not likely to be terribly
effective),

A trip to the emergency room for some Toradol or Morphine would
be about my only suggestion in the middle of the night.

Not very cost effective, but it's about the only way to get
a higher powered pain medicine.

Hopefully the surgeon can determine the best course of action
and determine if the jaw pain is from the extraction or a
somewhat separate issue.

D

First, a return to the dentist is an excellent idea.

Second, different brands of ibuprophen work differently for me.
The old blue Advil were useless. the yellow Nuprin were
excellent. The generic ones (small, brown, round) were nearly
useless. The new white Nuprin are sorta middle of the range. The
generic Berkley and Jensen from BJ's were middle range.

This I know, cause I used to have a physcially demanding job. And
I used a lot of ibuprophen for aches and pains.

I'd suggest to go to the store and buy several brands of
ibuprophen. Explain to the pharmacist what you're doing. Ought to
be three or four brands at most pharmacies. Also consider brand
name Tylenol, which isn't ibuprophen. Give her a different brand
of pills each time, see if one brand works better.

Incidentally, it's not legal to get on the phone and call all
your friends and relatives. See if someone has some pain pills
left over from their dental work. Prescriptions are only for the
person whose name is on the label. Realistically, though. If you
don't say anything to anyone, and don't write about it on this
usenet list. And ask your relatives not to say anything. Who
would ever know?