“How do you take care of your mouth after a tooth extraction?”
I am a 32 year old female. I want to know how do you take care of your mouth after a tooth extraction?
6 Answers
Keep it clean, follow the instructions they should have given you, don't suck through a straw or have anything carbonated for a week.
First control bleeding with pressure applied to the extraction site with gauze packs. Warm salt water rinses after the first two days helps with the healing process. Use care, but maintain strict oral hygiene. You should always receive detailed instruction from your surgeon for postoperative care.
Your oral and maxillofacial surgeon will go over this with you after surgery. The post-operative care, diet alteration, etc. differs slightly depending on your particular extraction.
Brush and use OTC non-alcoholic mouthwash 4 times a day.
Your dentist will give you a set of instructions to follow. Please follow them. Do not rinse your mouth for 24 hours. You do not want to loose the blood clot that forms. Rinsing with salt water several times a day is very important. Especially after eating. If you can open your mouth to place your toothbrush and brush your teeth, brush carefully on the extraction side. Do not eat on the extraction SITE. I certainly hope you are not a smoker. Smoking prevents healing. Vaping still is being investigated.
Hello,
There are 3 things to consider when considering the best way to take care of your mouth after a tooth extraction (removal). The first thing is cleanliness. The cleaner your mouth is the better and faster it will heal. This means using warm salt water rinses at the appropriate times as well as keeping the extraction area free of food particles after a meal. The second thing to consider is to be on the preventative for dry socket (alveolar osteitis). After a tooth is extracted, the socket that the tooth sat in forms a blood clot. The lost of this blood clot is a dry socket which can be painful. Because of this it is best not do do any rinsing, spitting, drinking through a straw, or dragging on a cigarette for the first 24-48 hours after tooth extraction. Finally, the 3rd thing to consider is something that most people tend to forget: exercise. This means that you should use your jaw to chew and eat as you normally would. Do not over work your jaw but it is also important not to abandon it either. Hope this helps.
My best to you!
William F. Scott IV, DMD
There are 3 things to consider when considering the best way to take care of your mouth after a tooth extraction (removal). The first thing is cleanliness. The cleaner your mouth is the better and faster it will heal. This means using warm salt water rinses at the appropriate times as well as keeping the extraction area free of food particles after a meal. The second thing to consider is to be on the preventative for dry socket (alveolar osteitis). After a tooth is extracted, the socket that the tooth sat in forms a blood clot. The lost of this blood clot is a dry socket which can be painful. Because of this it is best not do do any rinsing, spitting, drinking through a straw, or dragging on a cigarette for the first 24-48 hours after tooth extraction. Finally, the 3rd thing to consider is something that most people tend to forget: exercise. This means that you should use your jaw to chew and eat as you normally would. Do not over work your jaw but it is also important not to abandon it either. Hope this helps.
My best to you!
William F. Scott IV, DMD
