Tooth extraction - through such an intervention at least once in a lifetime any person goes through. Sometimes this is the only way to get rid of pain, which bothers and does not allow you to live in peace, although modern dentistry does everything possible to preserve the health of the tooth at all costs. They remove it, as a rule, in the conditions of a dental clinic, for which they use surgical dental instruments. When removing, they try in no case to damage adjacent teeth and preserve their bone tissue.
What to do after tooth extraction? First, you need to know about the normal manifestations after such an operation. A slight increase in temperature, pain in the area of the extracted tooth, which gradually subsides, but does not increase and is relieved by drugs, a slight swelling or even a hematoma in people for whom high blood pressure is normal. All these are the natural consequences of a tooth extraction surgery.
So what to do after tooth extraction? In the wound, the doctor will put a cotton swab soaked in hemostatic fluid. In a few hours, the blood in the wound coagulates, forming a clot, bleeding stops, and the tampon can be removed. On the day of surgery, as a rule, rinsing the mouth with special disinfecting solutions is not recommended so that the wound does not begin to bleed again. Soda solution or furatsilin is prescribed after complex removals - not earlier than in a day. In this case, rinses are carried out gently, without excessive fanaticism, in order to avoid new bleeding. Often, the patient calls the doctor and asks: “What should I do, after tooth extraction I can’t open my mouth well?” This happens, and especially often with the resection of complex, distant teeth, which include the “eights”.
The eighth tooth very often grows abnormally. Due to its size, it simply does not have enough space in the dentition, and it seeks to extend to the area of either the cheek or tongue, and also often clings to the seventh tooth, creating a certain discomfort for a person. In addition, this tooth is physically difficult to clean physically, so it is often affected by caries. As a rule, G8s are not treated, but deleted. The eighth tooth is removed under local anesthesia, sometimes after the operation the doctor may suture.
Also, complicated procedures include the removal of the retained tooth. This is a tooth that for some reason did not cut through or partially did. Often this is due to crowded memory
in a large number, as well as due to excessively early extraction of milk teeth. In any case, such teeth have a bad effect on those growing nearby, create a certain discomfort for a person and visually change the dentition. Such teeth must be removed. Unfortunately, to get to the
retarded tooth, you have to cut the gum, and the wound after this operation can bleed longer than usual. What to do after tooth extraction in this situation? First, it’s important to listen to the doctor’s recommendations and follow them exactly. Secondly, with such a removal, the doctor must prescribe the use of antibiotics, which are selected individually. These drugs are required, because the gum sections, which are well supplied with blood, heal for a long time. With an open wound in the mouth, there is always a risk that the remnants of food will remain in it and begin to rot.
However, if tooth extraction is the only possible solution, you must take it and do this operation. In any case, surviving a tooth extraction and the period after that is easier than an unbearable toothache. And if you follow the doctor’s recommendations, the wound will heal quickly and without problems.