Just got a lower molar extracted?

Question

about three hours ago.Can I smoke or will I get dry socket?It wasn't a wisdom tooth and I'm not talking cigarettes

Answer 1

You're not supposed to smoke for several hours or even a full 24 hour day, but I did and it didn't bother me at all. ( and I'm talking cigarettes)
If it was a pretty straighforward extraction, with no excessive bleeding, you should be alright - but it would be much better if you waited.
Fat chance eh? lol !!

At least make sure that you have the cotton/gauze or whatever in place, to prevent most of the the smoke getting directly into the socket. Don't suck hard - or you can dislodge the clot.
Make sure you rinse well with salt solution after each time you smoke and re-pack the socket with clean guaze, or how your dentist directs.

I don't want to scare you, but you need to know that you're taking a risk.... so at least TRY to wait a little longer before smoking.....

Dry socket, is a well recognised complication of tooth extraction. It is characterised by increasingly severe pain in and around the extraction site, usually starting on the second or third post-operative day and which may last for between ten and forty days. The pain may radiate and typically pain in the ear is one of the symptoms of a dry socket . The normal post-extraction blood clot is absent from the tooth socket(s), the bony walls of which are denuded and exquisitely sensitive to even gentle probing. Halitosis is invariably present. The condition probably arises as a result of a complex interaction between surgical trauma, local bacterial infection and various systemic factors.

*May your socket never go dry *

Answer 2

Yes, you will probably get dry socket, it hurts horribly and lasts for weeks, so avoid at all costs. If the blood clot that formed in the extraction area becomes dislodged, it exposes the underlying bone. It is caused by any sucking action from smoking (dont for at least 12 hours after), sneezing, coughing, spitting or sucking, within the first 24 hours.

If youre going to anyway, make sure the area is packed very well with cotton, use a water-pipe, and pull very gently! Its not worth it though, everyone I know who has had dry socket is the worst pain they've ever had in their lives, so risking it isn't advisable.

Answer 3

Hey- I just got a tooth extracted-an upper molar and I was smoking my prop 215 "medicine" an hour later when I got home. It's not the point of simply smoking the dentists try to deter you from-it's the sucking action people use-mostly to smoke cigarettes. I use a bong so the sucking restriction(I felt)didn't apply to me. Also be careful sucking on straws. So good times, man. Smoke up- just go easy on the sucking. The smoke itself, in my experience as a lifelong smoker, doesn't actually hurt the area as long as you rinse adequately and follow the other hygiene directions. Good luck

Answer 4

Do not smoke or drink through straws it could and would cause a dry socket by loosening the blot clot formation.

Answer 5

Follow your dentist advice. Personally, I'd lay off of anything, that could create a dry socket, as well as interfere with any pain killers the dentist might have prescribed.

Answer 6

Dry socket sucks - but you can get it even if you don't smoke. Make sure the area is packed with gauze if you're gonna smoke, and rinse your mouth afterwards.

Answer 7

2d molars are the least substantial tooth in the mouth after the understanding tooth. once you're leaning against, then extract. in case you want to maintain each and every tooth, root canal and crown it.

Answer 8

you'll be fine. you won't get dry socket, buy maybe cotton mouth (but you probably have that anyway, with the packing. i believe dry socket occurs when drinking through straws, etc. and is caused by sucking out the healing flech where your tooth used to be. anyway, that will definately help with the pain.

Answer 9

Whatever u do dont smoke, Google Yul Brynner

Answer 10

DON'T SMOKE!!!! Smoking will infect the blood clot.
Don't even use a straw, you could break the clot.