North Mankato Family Dentistry
Drs. Angela Schuck & Keith Flack
Every Moment Brings Another Reason To Smile

Extractions

 

What To Do After Extraction

  • After extractions, gauze will be placed in mouth. Leave in place for 30 minutes.
  • Extra gauze will be sent home with you. Use if bleeding continues. Slightly wet the gauze and place in a way so when biting, pressure is applied to extraction site/s. Again leave for 30 minutes. May need to be repeated several times.
  • Avoid aggravating extraction site with tongue.
  • Do not smoke, drink through a straw, or suck on candies for at least 3 days.
  • Take it easy for the first 24 hours. No heavy lifting or repeated bending over.
  • Eat a healthy, high calorie, soft food diet. Try to avoid getting food in extraction site/s.
  • Avoid alcohol as it thins blood and can increase bleeding
  • Use an older pillow case for first few nights as blood can mix with saliva.
  • Ice packs can be used for swelling by having 20 minutes on/20 minutes off. Repeat as needed.
  • If antibiotics/pain medications are prescribed, take as directed.
  • Skip brushing/flossing in the extraction site for first 24 hours.
  • After 24 hours day you may begin swishing very gently with prescribed mouth rinse or warm salt water (2 oz. very warm water and ½ teaspoon salt). Rinsing before 24 hours may disrupt clotting and cause post operative complications.
  • Rinse every hour or more for the next few days.
  • Alternate between Tylenol (acetaminophen) up to two 500mgs tabs and Advil (Ibuprofen) up to four 200mgs tabs every 3 hours or as needed, if it’s safe for you to take these medications.

If severe pain, swelling, or bleeding occurs, please call our office.

Contact Us

We encourage you to contact us with any questions or comments you may have. Please call our office at (507) 625-2273 or use the quick contact form below.

Testimonials

To Drs/ Staff at N.M.F.D.

Somehow just reimbursing you for services rendered seems inadequate, at best. Thank you so very much for all the special care you give to make my visits comfortable to me, this is simply priceless.

From the moment I call through the moment I leave the clinic- I feel welcome and important. I so appreciate modern technology and your efforts to keep procedures pain-free. It is also refreshing to see an office that is organized, prompt, and clean, and obviously has employees that enjoy their work and their co-workers.

C. Olson St. Peter

I put off going to the dentist for many years because of the pain of just touching them.

When I was a child the dentist slapped me 'cause I was crying 'cause it hurt. He said, "it don't hurt that bad", but he did not have my mouth. When I was 23 I got a full upper plate (denture) and a partial on the bottom and never went back until I needed an anchor tooth removed. I had the oral surgeon do it 'cause they would put me to sleep.

15 years later I heard about relaxed dentistry from the radio and a couple of kids at work. I knew I needed to have things done and paid for before I retired, so I made the appointment and I had a new full upper and new partial. No Pain!. They used the "Wand" for Novocain so if there is pain you do not even know it. I even has a root canal and don't remember anything. It was Great!!

H. Hager Mankato

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