i'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow morning?

Question

all four of them.. wish me luck! any food suggestions or comfort suggestions would be SO appriciated!! thanks everyone!! =/

Answer 1

POST-OP INSTRUCTIONS

Bite on the gauze for about 30 minutes after your surgery. Do not bite too firmly, just enough to keep the gauze in place. After the blood clot forms it is important to protect it especially for the next 48 hours to avoid dry socket. Drainage for a few days is normal. To minimize swelling and bleeding, keep head elevated (use extra pillows when sleeping). You can brush your teeth the day of surgery. Avoid brushing the surgery site. Any stitches will come out on their own in a week

Rinse your mouth with warm salt water after meals and before bed. Begin a very gentle warm salt water rinses (1tsp. salt for every 8oz. of water). The first day or so, do not swish the water around in your mouth; Instead, move your head side to side to rinse. Do not spit; Let the water flow out of your mouth. If you are watching salt intake in your diet, you may substitute the salt water rinse with a peroxide and warm water rinse. Use a 50/50 peroxide and water solution

NO smoking for 2 days
NO drinking through a straw for 2 days
NO mouthwash for a week
NO excessive spitting
NO vigorous rinsing for at least 48 hours after your surgery
AVOID alcoholic beverages
AVOID greasy foods
AVOID high acidic foods and drinks such as tomatos, orange juice, etc....
DO NOT over exert yourself. It is ok to ride in a car or on a plane

For Pain:

Advil (Ibuprofen) or Aleve (Naproxin Sodium) or Extra-Strength Tylenol (Acetaminophen). Take with food. NO aspirin or aspirin products

For Swelling:

Place an ice bag on side of face where your surgery was, for 30 minutes on, then 30 minutes off. Repeat for 6 hours. After 48 hours, use warm compresses as needed for swelling

Eat soft foods. No chips, pretzels, peanuts, etc.... Stay away from crunchy, chewy or small hard foods, to avoid food particles becoming lodged in the socket. Suggested foods are clear broth, pasta, potatoes, yogurt, baby food, smoothies, pudding, cream of wheat, 7up, Ginger Ale, apple juice
____________________________

EXTRACTIONS

Extractions have to be done well. Normally they pull a tooth out, stick a piece of gauze in there and say bite on it. After the tooth is removed, the socket has to be completely cleaned so that complete healing can occur. If tissue such as torn pieces of ligaments or periosteum is left in the socket and covers the bone, the bone will tend to heal over the top, leaving a hole in the bone, and new bone cannot form. This hole can persist for the rest of the patient's life. It is a chronic infection that is called an alveolar cavitational osteopathosis or cavitation. This means that there is an infected cavity in the bone. These bone infections are only now being seriously researched. If they are fairly easy to prevent by proper socket cleaning, why is this not being done? But many if not most dentists have never heard of cavitations.


CAVITATIONS

A cavitation is an unhealed hole in the jawbone caused by an extracted tooth [or a root canal or an injury to a tooth]. Since wisdom teeth are the most commonly extracted teeth, most cavitations are found in the wisdom tooth sites. Please see the graphic and photo below to get a glimpse of what may be in your mouth and the effects it is having. The photo and diagram demonstrate the destructive and pathologic consequence of a routine tooth extraction. Dentists are taught in dental school that once they pull a tooth, the patient's body heals the resulting hole in the jawbone. However, approximately 95% of all tooth extractions result in a pathologic defect called a cavitation. The tooth is attached to the jawbone by a periodontal ligament which is comprised of "jillions" of microscopic fibers. One end of each fiber is attached to the jawbone and the other end of the fiber is attached to the tooth root. When a tooth is extracted, the fibers break midway between the root and the bone. This leaves the socket (the area where the root was anchored in the bone) coated with periodontal ligament fibers.

There are specialized cells in the bone called osteoblasts. Osteoblasts make new bone. The word "osteoblast" means bone former. They are active during growth and maintenance. However, the periodontal ligament prevents the osteoblasts from filling in the tooth socket with bone since the periodontal ligament fibers lining the socket act as a barrier beyond which the osteoblasts cannot form bone. In other words, an osteoblast "sees" a tooth when it "sees" periodontal ligament fibers. Since there are billions of bacteria in the mouth, they easily get into the open tooth socket. Since the bone is unable to fill in the defect of the socket, the newly formed "cavitation" is now infected. Since there is no blood supply to the "cavitation" it is called "ischemic" or "avascular" (without a blood supply). This results in necrosis (tissue death). Hence we call a cavitation an unhealed, chronically infected, avascular, necrotic hole in the bone. The defect acts to an acupuncture meridian the same way a dead tooth (or root canal tooth) acts. It causes an interference field on the meridian which can impair the function and health of other tissues, organs and structures on the meridian. Significantly, the bacteria in the cavitation also produce the same deadly toxins that are produced by the bacteria in root canals (see Root Canals). These toxins are thio-ethers (most toxic organic substance known to man), thio-ethanols, and mercaptans. They have been found in the tumors in women with breast cancer.

Answer 2

I had my wisdom teeth out and found there was a fair amount of bruising so a cold compress to the side of the face helped with that, also took mild pain relief. Also is was hard to open my jaw so I mostly drank warm drinks rather than ate for the first 2 days after. As to what you can eat, personally I'd stick to those things yoiu don't have to chew too much - soup, mashed potatoes and the like.
All the best.

Answer 3

I don't know about the eating, the anesthetics might couse stomach problems if you eat. I had all four of mine done recently and I am a HUGE whoos- it was fine- they knocked me out and I never woke up- if you do wake up they will knock you right back out and you are not likely to remember waking up. Afterwards, waking up you will be so drugged up you will not e likely to feel any pain but you may react emotionally to the meds. My husband and kids tell me I sat and cried for the rest of the day when I got home but I dont remember 1 minute of it- some people I know just slept the rest of the day. You might feel really good the day after but rest anyway because you are still feeling the effects of very strong pain meds- thesecond day after the surgery was the worst for me. I stayed in bed just feeling tired and needing pain meds but after 3 -4 days you should be fine.

Answer 4

I had all four taken out as well. It all depends on how the operation goes. I was fine and went out to a party that same night but my friend couldn't open his jaw without pain and stayed home for a few days. If you do choose to eat solid food, make sure you have a way to get the food out of the holes in your gums (after the stitches have dissolved). I used these little plastic toothpicks with brushes on one end. I've heard of others getting a water injector device to do the job. Oh and opt for the general anesthetic instead of the local.

Answer 5

omg!!!!!!! i am totally going to pray for you, having all four at oncce! thats going to be so painful, i dont want to scare you. just make sure you get lots of movies and snugggle up on the couch. you def wont be able to eat the day of surgery. I remember my mouth was bleeding a lot and my mom wouldnt let me take the pain pills! make sure ur mom realizes that you are in pain and need the vicadin. ps.s get some soft serve frozen vanilla yogurt if ur hungry bc thats all u will be able to eat for the first two days. after that you will be able to eat soup or other soft foods.

Answer 6

Good Luck and get some pain pills for after surgury.
gargle with vinegar and salt.
Use teabags in mouth for soreness. Take Motrin.

Answer 7

jello and tylenol 3 with codine. are they coming in straight or are they crooked. mine came in straight and they all came out with ease, but if they are pulled or cut beware of dry socket. any food you eat can get caught in the cavity of where your teeth were, and it is very painful. my suggestion is jello for a week and broth, if you have to have food food try something that dissolves easily so it doesnt get stuck in the cavities.

Answer 8

Good luck and just follow the doctors orders.

Answer 9

prepare to be in pain i had four of mine pulled like 4yrs ago and i spit blood for 2 days and i couldnt eat anything solid for like 5 and you have to be sure to keep it clean back there or else it will get infected and then you have to go back and they will dig it all out and it will hurt but you get some good pain killers but you will be eating them like candy

the day i got mine pulled i went and drank 1 beer at a party and i passed out lol and the next place i woke up i was in my bed the next day so dont drink anything cause you will pass the hell out lol

Answer 10

Sis just "ice cream" to let the wounds heal faster,no hard meals for now.More"ice cream, ice cream & ice cream"after every meals.Pain killers prescribe by your dentist.