Foods to avoid after wisdom teeth removal Solid foods with sharp edges can poke the site, causing bleeding, swelling, or even a painful dry socket.

You should be able to safely consume well-cooked fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables include ripened sliced bananas, applesauce and baked apples (without the skin), baked or broiled sweet potatoes or yams, spinach, beets, cooked carrot slices and potatoes. Protein is important for the healing process.

When can I start eating normal food after wisdom teeth extraction? Many patients find they can resume normal eating within a week of having their wisdom teeth removed. Maintaining a diet full of soft, delicious and healthy foods in the days and weeks after wisdom teeth removal is crucial to your recovery.

You should eat only soft foods for the first week: for example, soups, eggs, mashed potatoes, and meatloaf are fine. For 2 weeks (8 weeks if you had lower wisdom teeth extracted), do not eat hard, crunchy, or very chewy foods, such as European breads, pizza crust, steak or jerky, nuts, or popcorn.

After 48 – 72 hours Now you can start with a bit of solid food but still not a burger. Few choices of foods can be scrambled eggs, dairy items, or other pureed items.

You can eat normally as soon as you are comfortable, but please avoid nuts, chips, seeds and popcorn for 2 weeks. It is important to resume your normal dental routine after 24 hours. This should include brushing your teeth at least twice a day. This will speed healing and help keep your mouth fresh and clean.

Your tooth hole will be fully or almost fully closed about 6 weeks after surgery. The indentation will usually fill in and heal completely after several more months. Surgical extraction is often required to remove: an impacted tooth, such as wisdom teeth that don’t erupt into your gums.

Depending on the intrusiveness of the procedure, you may be allowed to start on liquid foods a few hours after a tooth extraction. Foods like ice-cream, soups, pudding, yogurt and cereal are okay.

Dry socket occurs when the blood clot that should have formed in the socket after your extraction is either accidentally removed or never formed in the first place. Dry socket is no longer a risk once the site is healed.

Avoid smoking and tobacco By comparison, only 4 percent of those who don’t smoke developed dry socket. The fast inhalation of smoking can dislodge your blood clot. This applies to smoking anything at all, not just cigarettes. That’s because chemicals in other tobacco products may prevent healing and cause an infection.

Does dry socket hurt instantly? You will not feel a higher amount of pain the first two days after the extraction. However, if healing does not progress well and if the clot falls out, then you will start to feel a dull, throbbing, and radiating pain that keeps increasing to the point of becoming simply unbearable.

Preventative measures, like the placement of the sutures and packing, can be taken by your oral surgeon to decrease the risk of dry socket.

Gently rinsing with salt water twice daily after tooth extraction can help by keeping the site around your socket clean. However, some behaviors like smoking and drinking from a straw can also lead to dry socket.

Conclusions: Systemic antibiotics significantly reduce the risk of dry socket and infection in third molar extraction.

Here are 6 ways to speed up wisdom teeth recovery.

• Keep swelling at bay. Applying a cold compress on the affected area for 20 minutes several times a day can help keep the swelling at bay.
• Contain the bleeding.
• Keep your mouth clean.
• Eat (and drink) mindfully.
• Take a break.
• Take your medicine.

After removal, there will be holes in the back of your mouth where your teeth were. Over the next few weeks, these holes will heal as new tissue fills them in.

After wisdom teeth extraction, you need to sleep with your head elevated for the first few nights. A single pillow should suffice when you’re sleeping on your side. If you’re having trouble falling asleep in that position, pile a few pillows behind you for support and lean back.