Glad I could help you out

 

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just had mine done in december(and I'm getting 2 crowns next month )
Definatly do the warm salt water. It actually feels good.

 

keep them irrigated to avoid a dry socket. smoking can pull the stitches out and cause a dry socket.

 

ew.

if you care at all about how you heal, don't smoke at all.

 

yeh, i havent been to the dentist in.. well, a while.. i just fucking hate the place. everytime i go i have at least a cavity and ive had 13 teeth pulled, 5 of which were full, grown in teeth. i brush my teeth 2, 3 times a day and still have all that trouble. but yeh, im gonna go in when i finish this semester, tell them to put me to sleep, do whatever they gotta do and give me a lot of codine after. my wisdom teeth are in all the way and they arent bothering me at all, so i dont think im gonna bother with that.

 

Thats so easy for a non-smoker to say.

I'm doing pretty good though. They hurt today and I'm really tired. Guess I didn't sleep well last night.

 

I had two that were partially out, and two impacted. I stayed awake during the whole thing. Nitros to the head through the nose the entire time. I didn't want the I.V., and plus, when I was 16, money was tight, and didn't want my mom to have to spend the extra $150 to have the I.V. Cheeks swollen like hell, but I'm glad I got it done. I smoked Cigs for 6 years and quit last September. Not mad at you, but you obviously know that sucking on a straw or whatever can pull the stitches and blood vessels to rupture, AND.... getting all that cigarette shit in your open wounds would NOT be cool. Hold out as long as you can. Like I said, I'm an ex smoker, so I KNOW that the stress from NOT smoking can mess with you enough to light up. lol

 

now.. would a bong have the same effect as smoking a cigarette? cause ya dont really suck h:

 

i'm not saying quit altogether. i'm saying, it's in your best interest to stop, until you heal. i had surgery last year, and the one thing they emphasized was not to smoke, because it can make a huge difference in how you recover.

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