When can I eat and drink after my wisdom teeth are pulled out?

After tooth extraction, a deep alveolar is left on the gum, and the deep wall of the alveolar is fresh bone surface. In order to avoid infection of bone surface, it is necessary to fill the alveolar cavity with blood clots and seal the wound surface, especially the fresh bone surface. Therefore, after tooth extraction, the doctor will scrape the alveolar bone. In addition to scraping the inflammatory tissue, in order to make the alveolar bone bleed, let the blood fill the entire alveolar bone, and then bite a cotton roll to make the blood in the alveolar bone coagulate and form a blood clot to close the wound. Therefore, whether brushing teeth or eating, the first thing to consider is not to let the blood clots that have formed in the tooth extraction socket fall off.

So how long can I eat after tooth extraction? Generally, you can eat it about 2 hours after tooth extraction without bleeding. What needs to be pointed out here is that bleeding after tooth extraction does not mean that there are some bloodshot blood in saliva, but that there are many bleeding wounds and large blood clots in the mouth. This situation needs to be treated in a hospital. After tooth extraction, you need to eat liquid food or semi-liquid food to avoid eating too hard food, causing blood clots to fall off or re-traumatizing the tooth extraction site. At this time, eating should not be too hot to avoid bleeding caused by vasodilation. It should be mainly cold food.

Drinking water is not easy to cause wound damage. Therefore, there is not much restriction on drinking water after tooth extraction. Just don't drink too hot water just after tooth extraction, which is also to avoid vasodilation and bleeding caused by tooth extraction.

Generally speaking, don't rinse your mouth or brush your teeth within 24 hours after tooth extraction. Because some friends find some bloodshot blood in saliva and always want to wash it clean, the result is often more and more washing. The result of hard washing is that blood clots fall off, the extraction socket is empty, and the bone surface is infected by the bacterial environment exposed in the oral cavity, which eventually leads to unbearable "dry socket", which prolongs the healing time of the extraction socket and affects the healing quality of the extraction socket. It is normal to have a little bloodshot saliva 24 hours after tooth extraction. Don't rinse your mouth to avoid blood clots falling off. Brushing teeth is more likely to cause blood clots to fall off, so brushing teeth and gargling are not allowed within 24 hours.

Generally speaking, don't brush your teeth and rinse your mouth within 24 hours after tooth extraction. You can eat cold liquid food and semi-liquid food 2 hours after tooth extraction. There are not too many restrictions on drinking water. Don't drink too hot water immediately after tooth extraction.