“How do you brush your teeth after an extraction?”

Brush everywhere except the extraction site. If you aren't bleeding you can try gently finding with warm salt water.

Brush your teeth as you do regularly except for the area close to the extraction site. Use a very soft brush in that area. The main reason is to avoid disrupting the blood clot from getting out of the socket snd to minimize bleeding. Do not rinse vigorously for 48 hours following extractions.

Try to avoid brushing the extraction site. Avoid spitting or using straws (any action that will disturb the clotting of the extraction site). Brush all other areas normally. Hope that helps!

You can gently and carefully brush the teeth around the extraction site with a dry brush or with very little toothpaste.  The idea is to not dislodge the soft, moist blood clot over the extraction site.  The clot is the only protection or "band-aid" over the socket so you do not want to accidentally brush it off or rinse so hard or so much that you rinse off the clot. If you do, the bone inside the socket will dry out, causing a complication called  "dry socket " or osteitis.  You would feel a dull,  aching pain after the 3rd or 4th day that goes away with pain pills but cones right back.  It is never sharp pain and you can work through it but it is not helping you to heal.  You must go back to your dentist to "pack" the socket with a dressing which will make you feel better in 10 minutes.  After changing the dressing once or twice more,  you are on your way back to healing on your own. As far as brushing the rest of your teeth, brush as you do normally but again, use very little toothpaste or dry brush because you do not want to vigorously rinse off the excess lather and end up losing your clot.  Put the water in your mouth and let the waterfall out passively.  Do not swish back and forth vigorously. The socket should heal over in a week if there are no complications.

Soft bristle brush in a gentle circular motion; with an electric brush stay on the neighboring teeth - avoid disrupting the extraction site and avoid strong alcohol-containing mouth rinses.