im 16 years old, and am to scared to ask the dentist since he might tell my mom i smoke. anyway, will being a smoker increase my chance of getting dry socket? even if i dont smoke at all after the surgery for like a week?
2007-06-29 04:23:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
thanx for all ur answers! and so far i dont have dry socket and i havn't smoked for 3 days.
2007-07-02 12:59:06 · update #1
Smoking will absolutely increase your chances of developing a dry socket after wisdom tooth removal. In fact, smoking interferes with healing in the mouth, period.
It is the presence of heat and the chemicals in smoke at the time of surgery that interferes with healing. (In other words, you could smoke right before surgery, and it wouldn't affect the healing afterwards.) Additionally, the suction action of drawing smoke into your mouth affects the surgical area. In fact, you will be advised not to drink through a straw for a few days after oral surgery so you don't disturb the blood clot that leads to healing.
If you can manage not to smoke for a week after surgery, that should be long enough to get good initial healing. But, smoking affects your your general health as well as your dental health. If you are able to stop for a week, why not go all the way and quit for good?
2007-06-29 04:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by ddsmarte 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you can quit for a week after the surgery, you should not get a dry socket. It still can happen but at least you can rest assured that it wouldn't be from the smoking.
2007-06-29 11:28:57 · answer #2 · answered by Sam G 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Infection, Dry socket and bleeding gums.
Don't smoke after it, and don't smoke before it for at least two weeks.
As for other things, not related to wisdom teeth removal...
Cancer, Throat Cancer and gingervitis, tooth loss and decay, as well as increased staining and cavities; your dentist already knows you smoke by looking at your teeth; you're not hiding anything, but he might not always confront you on it.
Chances are that your mother knows too if she's a non-smoker, (because non-smokers can almost ALWAYS tell when someone else does smoke; we smell it!) but just hasn't confronted you on it because there isn't much she can do about your choices, and knows this.
Even if she doesn't; There's alot more at stake than just your mother finding out you smoke.
I know that the last thing you want to hear is 'some lecture' on smoking, and I'm not telling you shouldn't, or should.
I'm just saying that, considering smoking kills more people than -any- other fatality out there, (with suicide not far behind), you've got alot more to worry about than your mother finding out you smoke.
2007-06-29 11:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by redsquirrelpooka 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
like a week??? no, I don't think so. There must be something wrong... have you drank something hot or cold in the first 2-3 hours? have a very hot shower, drank alcohol, did you removed the clot while eating, brushing etc? First 2-3 days are important. Yes being a smoker puts you in the risk but you say you stopped smoking for a week... Dry socket is usually because you disregarded your oral hygiene, use of drugs that could interfere with the clotting procedures of the body (such as Aspirin)... there can be other possibilities. you shouldn't smoke, smoking worsen every situation in life... trust me... or let's say it worsen your breath, color of your teeth and tongue, cause you to lose your teeth faster..
2007-06-29 14:41:46 · answer #4 · answered by bt the tooth fetish 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I got my wisdom teeth removed and I smoked afterwards. It caused me to have a dry socket so I highly suggest that you don't.
2007-06-29 11:31:32 · answer #5 · answered by edbdab 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Sam's answer is right.
I want to send a friendly plea out to you to please stop smoking. You will have life-long dental as well as general health problems if you don't. You are 3 times as likely to lose your teeth when you smoke. Stop now before it becomes to much of a crutch later. Please!!!!
As a minor your dentist should tell your mother, but most likely he won't.
2007-06-29 11:36:10 · answer #6 · answered by nancy s 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
SMOKING IS JUST WRONG. NOTHING GOOD COMES FROM IT. IN ANATOMY CLASS I DISSECTED A WOMAN WHO DIED FROM EMPHYSEMA -- WHY?
SHE SMOKED.
FOR EVERY CIGARETTE YOU SMOKE YOU SHORTEN YOUR LIFE BY 6 MINUTES. FOR A TYPICAL PERSON THIS MEANS 6 YEARS FROM A LIFE.
2007-06-29 15:12:06 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes, smoking is bad and it makes your breathe stink! you also get:
gum disease
mouth infections
tar.
you may also loose steadiness in your hands.
2007-06-29 11:52:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋