Smoking after an extraction
Why can’t I smoke?
Why is it that you can not smoke after you have a tooth extraction? My dentist told me not to smoke for at least a week. Do I really need to wait that long and why. I wanted to ask but he is the kind of dentist I could easily see saying “What you can not go without smoking for a week?” That would only bug me so I did not question him. Any one know why you can not smoke? And yes it just may kill me to go without smoking for a week. So let me know if I can really smoke sooner
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Friday, Dec. 11th 2009 11:20 AM at 11:20 am
The reason why the dentist does not want you to smoke for a week, is because by smoking after an extraction put you at risk for dry socket. Dry socket is very painful and you do want to try avoiding it at all cost.
However it is up to you if you want to run that risk or not. By the way not smoking will not kill you. Smoking however as been proven to kill.