After an Implant Surgery

General directives

In the slightest complication or the problem, communicate with Dr Alain St-Onge at (450) 746-1616 (when the office is opened) or in (514) 217-3707 (when the office is closed).
Take your medicines such as prescribed.

Rinse your mouth with some salty warm water, 3 times a day during the week preceding the surgery. (1/2 teaspoon of salt in a glass of warm water).
Avoid wearing your false teeth during night and remove them occasionally when your activities allow it.
Abstain from taking aspirin 10 days before the intervention.
See in the fact that a responsible person can accompany you the day of the surgery.

Maintain, by a light pressure of jaws, the plug of gauze during 2 hours. Do not spit, nor chew the gauze
During the 2 hours which follow the operation, abstain from eating and from drinking.
Do not touch the site of the intervention with fingers or tongue.
It is normal that the saliva is tinged with blood for day approximately. In case of prolonged bleeding, replace the plug of gauze by a bag of wet tea and apply a light pressure of jaws for another period of 2 hours.
Do not extend or sleep without placing the head on 2 or 3 pillows.
Apply a bag of ice surrounded with a wet towel at least 20 minutes at every hour.
Restrict your food to a cold liquid diet.
Do not rinse the mouth, nor brush teeth.
Some “petroleum jelly” will relieve your lips.
NO OVERWORK.

After the meals, brush delicately teeth, by excluding the operated place and the stitches.
DO NOT SMOKE during 2 weeks. This could cause an opening of wounds, and so put in risk the cure of implants.
To rinse the mouth, use mouth rince with chlorhexidine. In case it does not stay in you there any more, use a mixture of 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a glass of warm water.
A swelling can occur affecting its maximum over a period from 48 to 72 hours after the surgery and will disappear in the next days.
A discoloration of the skin can occur, it is normal and no treatment is indicated. The whole will be back to normal inside approximately 2 weeks.
Stitches are absorbable but can be removed 2 weeks after the surgery.
During the first 2 weeks, the diet has to be soft (purée).

Do not blow yourselves.
Do not drink liquid by means of a straw.
Do not fire at your lip to look at stitches.
If you have to sneeze, make it the opened mouth, this to avoid any useless pressure on sine.
It is not rare to perceive of girls granules in your mouth in the days following the surgery.

You feel granules in your nose.
Your medicines do not remove your discomfort.
You have questions, mostly a simple explanation will be enough to eliminate anxieties.