Tooth extraction, Hungry and worried.

geri1965_2

You should be fine to eat and drink now, as long as it is nothing that needs to chewed too hard or is too sticky, like a steak or some toffees.

ripplyuk

Just had some gravy chips. Tasted so good! Nice and mushy so no chewing effort involved.

I just wish I knew for sure when I can stop worrying about dry socket occurring but it seems to vary with different people. The fear of it has me so distracted, I can't even read a book.

theoretica

ripplyuk wrote: »

My dentist's advice was to avoid hot things for 24 hours and then just not to worry about it and it'll be fine ... I've read online that

Trust your dentist and stop looking for scare stories on line!

In my experience I was eating most things after two days, except nuts and burn the top of your mouth hot things which I didn't fancy.

Toothsmith

theoretica wrote: »

Trust your dentist and stop looking for scare stories on line!

In my experience I was eating most things after two days, except nuts and burn the top of your mouth hot things which I didn't fancy.

Exactly!

You seem to be going out of your way to terrify yourself!

Just do what you're told, and don't go looking for every possible horrible outcome of every condition you find!

ripplyuk

Part of me does wish I'd never heard of these 'dry sockets'. My lower wisdom teeth were extracted years ago. No one even mentioned this as a risk or gave me any post-op advice. I did literally everything you shouldn't do, including sucking everything through straws etc. and I was fine. But once you've read about it, you can't 'unlearn' it!

I think it's because there's so much conflicting information out there. Some people say the risk of dry socket is over at 48 hours, others say 2 weeks so I just can't relax until I'm sure. Also, my clindamycin has just finished and I'm thinking I should be taking it longer to help prevent dry socket. This is now day 4 and I've read it's best for 5 days. Hope it's ok.

xMonsoonx

I had bread and butter on the evening of a double extraction (one each side at the top) and had no problems.

My dentist just told me to do salt water swills before going to bed and not to eat anything hard or overly chewy.

Bread and butter (no crusts on the first day) fitted this and over the next few days the crusts where left on.

jenniewb

If it's any help,


I had a tooth extraction a few months ago, it was a pretty big tooth- the last one at the top of my mouth and the root was too curved to be removed by my regular dentist so I had to be sent on to a hospital.


The tooth was removed- the root was big-it was HUGE! All I could think about was the massive space it must have left behind. It turned out that at the root there was an infection- this was present before it was removed and so they had to drain I by cutting open the roof of my mouth, they said the wound would heal but as you can imagine I was pretty worried about an infection coming back- I wasn't given any antibiotics because I'd just finished two courses (neither had worked on the infection) I was assured that salt water was all I needed.


I stuck to soya milk for the first day or so, then wanted to try to eat something, but was still worried. I ate within 48 hours though and the tooth was fine- no problems, no infection and in fact in comparison to the agony it was in before (the tooth had cracked in half vertically) the tooth felt pretty pain free!


I think it I can go through all that, have an infection that was already present and still manage to eat without further infecting my tooth, then you can too. Please don't worry, when they say these infections are on the rare side they say it because it's true, they are always around to return to if things become painful and there are things they can do if the worst case sinario were to happen but it's far more likely that the tooth (or what was a tooth) will be fine.

ripplyuk

Thanks jenniewb, I do tend to panic about these things but it's good to know you were fine. I think it's also because it's the weekend so if anything did go wrong, my dentist is shut and only does emergencys for private patients.

I'd have to drive 40 miles to the nearest hospital walk in dental clinic and I have no faith in them now after a previous experience. I had an abscess and was really ill with a high fever, swollen cheek and eye. They refused to give me antibiotics, refused to drain the abscess or extract it or give out painkillers. The only advice they did give was to 'Try to eat something'!

But at least now it's Sunday, if anything does go wrong, my dentist will be open tomorrow so I do feel a little more relaxed about it.

Payless_2

I've just had rice, mayo and tuna (as recommended my a friend) It was a bit messy getting it into my mouth but I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was easy to chew x