Re: Wisdom teeth extraction - a few questions

On May 30, 10:29 pm, Barry Price <barryjprice+use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys,

I visited a dentist here in Thailand with toothache yesterday, and left with
my two right-hand side wisdom teeth in a plastic bag, just 90 mins later!

I've never had a tooth removed before, and language issues (I'm British, the
dentist was Thai) meant that communication wasn't easy.

Anyway, he gave me an antibiotic (Amoxy) to be taken 4 times daily, and a
painkiller (Parcet) to be taken every 4-6 hours while pain lasts.

I've got 11 Amoxys left (having taken 2 already today), so that's those
finished on Saturday morning. I've only got 3 Parcets left though. Having
taken one two hours ago, I guess I've got 10 hours of pain relief left. Ugh.

Oh, and a bag of gauze swabs, "in case I want to change them". No instructions
as to how to do so, or why I'd want to.

Now it's about 30 hours since the surgery. I had a cigarette about 6 hours ago,
then had the brainwave of searching the internet to see if there's anything
I should know. Number one tip seems to be don't smoke. Oops.

I've been drinking plain bottled water, and tried (and failed) to eat some
noodles earlier, but managed better on the ice-cream.

My big problem is that I can't actually open my mouth, or at least "un-bite"
my teeth, so to speak. I can feel the gauze on top of my "holes" - it seems to
be stiched in, and is either one pad stitched to both gums, or two pads stuck
together (with blood, I guess), but I think it's the trauma around the gums
and jaw that's causing the stiffness rather than the gauzes being tied
together. Also the right-hand side of my lips is all messed up, presumably
from where the dentist's hand was pressing while wrestling with the pliers.

So my jaw won't let me open the back of my mouth, and the skin around my lips
will tear if I open the front. I can't change the gauzes even if I wanted to,
and obviously can't eat solid food. I'm dying for a pizza!

How long should it be before I can
1. eat solids
2. smoke cigarettes
3. drink alcohol (bearing in mind the antibiotic)

Thanks.

PS. I have a follow-up appointment at 1pm next Tuesday, but was hoping I'd be
able to do most, if not all, of the above before then!

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1.Well Barry, you can eat and ...eaten solid food already. Now you
need to rinse out the food carefully after each meal.
You can use mouth rinse or just warm salt water.
2. No smoking perferrable your whole life. Cos nicotine can cause a
serious infection call "dry socket" which delay healing in serious
case your jaw bone may expose which is very painful that is gurantee!
3. No alcohol with drug at any time my friend. Wait till your wound
heal up first. No Alcohol with pain KILLER!!

The gauze should not be stiched in, possible is just blood sticking
together. It did sounds like your operator a bit rough.

.

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