“What happens if you smoke after jaw surgery?”
I am a 26 year old male. I want to know what happens if you smoke after jaw surgery?
6 Answers
you have higher risk of post surgery complications such as infection, dry socket, slow or poor quality healing
Lots of bad things can happen if you smoke, one of them being necrosis. That is a very dangerous condition and you must follow your dentists instructions. If you are lucky and don’t get necrosis the healing after the surgery will be affected. See, smoking damages the tiny blood vessels called capillaries and smokers have hard time with healing to start with. Smoking after the surgery makes things much worst.
Higher risk for infection, and non union meaning a second more invasive mandatory surgery. Also potential loss of a significant segment of the jaw.
You can have delayed or failed healing, pain, inflammation, guilt and regret.
Smoking constricts the blood flow and inhibits it from reaching the surgical site slowing the healing. Less blood flow means less available nutrients to help with the healing process. This can cause the surgery to fail. It is highly recommended that you reduce and better yet, stop smoking all together after oral surgery procedures if you want them to succeed.
No No. Smoking will be the worst thing you could do to harm yourself, after surgery.
