Guides
Tooth Extraction and Aftercare
The first few days after a tooth extraction are mostly about telling what is normal from what is not: how long the bleeding should last, why the pain can get worse a few days later, and what you can eat and drink. These guides take you through those days and through the question that follows them, which is what to put in the tooth's place.
Tooth Extraction and Aftercare
- Bleeding After a Tooth Extraction: What Is Normal?Pink saliva is normal; bleeding that fills your mouth is not. Stopping it at home, what a blood thinner changes, and the signs that mean A&E.
- The First 3 Days After a Tooth ExtractionProtecting the blood clot: gauze, food, rinsing, brushing, smoking, exercise, wudu and prayer. What normal healing looks like and when to see your dentist.
- Impacted Wisdom Tooth: Should It Come Out, and When?An impacted wisdom tooth causing no problems is usually monitored. What calls for removal, what nerve proximity on an X-ray means, coronectomy and aftercare.
- Dry Socket: Pain That Worsens Days After ExtractionPain that worsens 2–3 days after an extraction and spreads to the ear may be dry socket. How to recognise it, how it differs from infection, what is done.
- Pericoronitis: Wisdom Tooth Gum Inflammation and TreatmentWhy the gum flap over a partly erupted wisdom tooth gets inflamed, when it is an emergency, when antibiotics are needed and when extraction is discussed.