Instructions to follow after extracting a tooth or root
1. Hold the gauze bitten on the wound for an hour. If the bleeding continues, place a new gauze or cotton for an hour longer. If the bleeding persists for more than 24 hours, return to the clinic for further treatment. Avoid spitting, sucking and teasing the wound with the tongue.
2. If you experience edema (swelling) in the wound area, place an icecyst for up to 1 hour, corresponding to the site of surgery.
3. To treat the pain that can be observed, you should avoid acetylsalicylic acid derivatives (eg aspirin, salospir) because it will prolong bleeding and delay healing. Instead, you can take other analgesics / anti-inflammatory drugs such as depon, ponstan, niflamol, mesulid, Panadol.
4. For the first 24 hours you should avoid mouthwashing to avoid bleeding. After 24 hours the hygiene of the oral cavity can be continued normally using the toothbrush. It is advisable to wash with a dilute saline solution from the next extraction and for 4-5 days from two to three times a day for faster healing of the wound.
5. Avoid taking hard and hot food for the first 24 hours. Preferably, a soft and cold food is chewed from the opposite half of the extraction. However, during the next few days, you should avoid chewing food from the extraction side.
6. Once the wound has been sutured, the sutures are removed after a week.
7. Antibiotics do not need to take unless you are given such a recommendation.
8. Smoking is considered to be prohibitive for the next 1-2 days because it delays healing and can cause wound contamination with ultimate effect even to its necrosis.
9. Generally avoid any form of physical exercise for 1-2 days, such as gymnastics, crouching, manual work and anything else that could cause pressure to increase in the wound and hence bleeding and healing delay.
