After Wisdom Tooth Removal

After Wisdom Tooth Removal

Surgery of the mouth, like surgery in other parts of the body, requires careful attention to mail service-operative care in order to minimize the normal after-effects.

Emergencies

If you accept any questions or bug, call our role at 604 924-8088. There is always an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon on telephone call if yous have an emergency afterward hours.

Bleeding
  • Some oozing is normal for 24 – 48 hours. Excessive bleeding can ofttimes be controlled by biting with pressure on a pad of damp sterile gauze directly on the bleeding wound for hour.
  • Change gauze every thirty-sixty minutes as needed until bleeding subsides (usually ii – 3 hours after your process). If haemorrhage starts again, it's oftentimes controlled by these above measures.
  • Ensure that yous Practise NOT slumber with gauze in your oral fissure.
  • Keep caput elevated, minimize activity, avoid spitting. Practice not bear upon or brush the wound in the starting time 24 hours.
  • Some swelling may occur several hours after surgery, reaching a maximum inside 3 days.
  • Use an water ice pack on the cheek as much as tolerated for 48 to 72 hours. After the 3rd twenty-four hour period, warm packs applied to cheeks may help to diminish swelling and stiffness.
  • Before the anaesthetic diminishes and the sensation starts to render, begin the accept the prescribed pain medication, merely as directed.
  • Experience in hurting is extremely variable. Have prescribed pain medication as needed.
  • Taking your pain medication with food helps to prevent nausea.
  • If an antibody is prescribed, finish the prescribed medication.
    Notation: antibiotics subtract the effectiveness of the birth control pill.
  • Soft, cool foods and liquids will be easier to swallow. Render to a normal diet as tolerated unless otherwise directed. Avoid hot fluids and the employ of a drinking straw for ane week.
  • Rima oris and wound cleanliness is essential to good healing. Rinse your mouth with warm salt water (1/2 tsp common salt in a glass of warm water) on the evening of surgery and continue to rinse subsequently eating until healing is complete. Castor your teeth usually on the evening of surgery, fugitive the wound. The day after surgery, brush the teeth commonly, and also gently brush the wound, fifty-fifty if stitches are present.
  • Stitches will deliquesce on their own.
  • Avoid clarified mouth wash for ane week.
  • Proceed to rinse with salt h2o later on meals until the wound is completely healed.
  • Start use of the syringe iv days later on surgery to gargle lower tooth extraction sites with warm table salt h2o. Use syringe 3 times per day after meals until unable to exercise so.
  • DO Non DRIVE for the residue of the 24-hour interval if you accept had IV sedation or general anaesthetic. Yous are legally impaired.
  • DO NOT Bulldoze OR OPERATE MACHINERY if taking Tylenol #3 and this medication can crusade drowsiness.
  • Difficulty in opening and closing the mouth, bruising, and difficulty swallowing are conditions which sometimes occur. These are normal mail-operative conditions and will resolve in time. Avoid smoking for one week to forbid complications in healing, such equally dry sockets. The trend should exist improvement beyond the third day. If later on the third day, in that location is obvious worsening of the symptoms, please call the office.