INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PATIENT AFTER TOOTH EXTRACTION

1. Keep the gauze pad placed over the surgical area with pressure applied by biting down until the bleeding stops.
2. Take your prescribed pain medication as soon as you begin to feel discomfort. This will usually coincide with the local anesthetic becoming less effective. The best way to avoid pain anyway, is to take pain medication while the local anesthesia is still in effect, in that way when the pain kicks in, the medication is already there.
3. Do not suck on a straw, spit, or smoke.
4. Restrict your activities the day of surgery, and resume normal activity when you feel comfortable.
5. Place ice packs on the side of your face where surgery was performed.
6. Use warm saline rinses 24hours after the extraction has been done. The Solution can be prepared by mixing a quarter teaspoon of salt in a luke warm glass of water. Donot rinse thoroughly.
7. Vigorous mouth rinsing or touching the affected area following surgery should be avoided. This may initiate bleeding caused by dislodging the blood clot that has formed. Do not rinse your mouth for the first post-operative day or while there is bleeding. After the first day, use a warm salt water rinse every 4 hours and after meals to flush out particles of food and debris that may lodge in the area.
8. Restrict your diet to liquids and soft foods which are comfortable for you to eat.
9. Sometimes there is need for suture placement, they are to be removed after a week's time. Donot forget to see your dentist after a week.

NOTE: In very limited instances, a very small fragment of tooth might get fractured from the tooth root and stay in the root area of the bone. It is safer to leave that portion of the tooth in the bone.

For further elaboration of the above instructions,
contact Dr. Zia at 0092-3234918491