Although smoking is never recommended, if it is needed, dental professionals typically suggest you hold off from smoking for at least 72 hours, or three days. This healing time will allow blood clots to form and start the healing process reasonably quickly and it will be harder to disrupt this process after three days.
Talk to your dental professional about the timing that may be best for you. Follow your dentist's recommendations to ensure the healing process goes smoothly. If you have a tooth extracted, this may be the perfect time to kick-start your plan to stop smoking. When you are forced to stay away from smoking for dental reasons, it can be easier to continue to not smoke shortly afterward. If not, be sure to stop for at least the recommended time listed above, or the specific time your dentist recommends.
Again, all healing times can be different depending on your body and the amount of surgery performed. Do not allow a cigarette or two to elongate the healing process.
Smoking following any oral surgery increases the chances of certain complications. We advise that quitting before the procedure is the best thing a patient can do, not just for their oral health and the procedure, but for their overall health too. We recommend patients avoid straws for the same reason: the last thing you want to do after wisdom tooth surgery is create suction in your mouth.
The suction will pull on the wound, creating a fair amount of pain and pulling the sutures apart. In addition to causing pain, smoking will delay healing. The biggest risk of smoking following a wisdom tooth extraction is a condition called dry socket. In standard settings, after a tooth is extracted, a blood clot will form in the socket.
This is a good thing and is part of the normal healing process. Dry socket is when the blood clot fails to develop, or it becomes dislodged before healing. When this happens, all the nerves under the tooth become exposed, which creates a very painful situation.
If you smoke, the suction could draw the blood clot out, or prevent it from forming. While non-smokers can develop this condition too, dry socket is much more prevalent in smokers.
If you must smoke after having your wisdom teeth removed, we highly advise you to wait for at least hours. But for smokers, the tooth extraction maple grove minnesota experience can be uniquely difficult.
If your dentist is encouraging you to have a tooth extracted for one of many possible reasons and you are a regular smoker, your dentist will recommend that you temporarily stop using tobacco after the procedure.
For a regular smoker, it can be very challenging to temporarily stop using tobacco. A dentist will recommend that a smoker abstains from using tobacco for at least 72 hours, or 3 days, after oral surgery including extraction procedures. There are many reasons why you may need to have a tooth removed. If your tooth is infected, has caused shifting of your other teeth, or you have wisdom teeth that are coming in with issues you may need to have a tooth extracted.
After your dentist suggests you need to have a tooth extracted it is important to be prepared and informed of everything that is involved in the recovery process, including taking a break from smoking and tobacco use for a short period of time.
Cigarette smoke contains chemical toxins that can delay healing and be dangerous to your gum and mouth tissues. If you smoke and expose your healing gums to these toxins it can result in serious complications, including dry socket, inflammation, or infection.
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