food stuck in socket

i am 8 days post op and i am at the point where i do not have pain from my sockets and am starting to slowly begin to eat normally. i'm still being careful, eating mostly soft foods and chewing with my canines, but food inevitably gets stuck in my sockets. my surgeon never gave me irrigation syringes to clean them, and doing regular rinses isn't cutting it. should i just go and buy the syringes or is there a different method i can do to carefully removed food from them? i don't want to cause any complications.