Post- dental surgery food?

[mirror's edgy]

I am having a few inconvenient molars removed in a week, and will be suffering the backlash for a few days afterward. Being immobilized and inactive is... depressingly similar to how I am already spending summer break, but that's not my point. For those of you who went through a similar dental procedure, how was the aftermath and what did you find you could eat? I am not on a kosher or diabetic diet myself, in case anyone was wondering.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Avoid Ensure at all costs, that stuff is disgusting!

 

[adragonofgold]

Soup, Jello, pudding, gingerale to start. Mac and cheese is easy too. Move up to other pasta dishes if you feel like you need more filling food.

 

[Deacon Cole]

Definitely not chocolate pudding. In fact, eat nothing for the first few days after surgery. You'll likely be swallowing blood for a little while, and this is liable to make you puke. Like I did. The bathroom liked like the chocolate pudding massacre or something.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

Soup, Jello, pudding, gingerale to start. Mac and cheese is easy too. Move up to other pasta dishes if you feel like you need more filling food.

Definitely these. Mashed potatoes and soup were all I ate after I had dental surgery. If you can get them smoothies are good too.

 

[mirror's edgy]

Soup, Jello, pudding, gingerale to start. Mac and cheese is easy too. Move up to other pasta dishes if you feel like you need more filling food.

Definitely these. Mashed potatoes and soup were all I ate after I had dental surgery. If you can get them smoothies are good too.

Good advice, except the smoothies might not be. Straws themselves are a bad idea, but drinking them otherwise would probably work.

 

[Erana]

I had my wisdom teeth taken out recently.
My favorite thing was to take a can of tomato soup, stick it in a pan, then fill the can half with milk and half with cream (Or half and half if you have that much lying around.) Add some dill weed, and heat until warm.
It is a bit rich, but if you're like me, dental surgery kills the appetite and you can use the calories you can get in you to heal.

 

[Airsoftslayer93]

Jelly, and lots of it, slurp it down

 

[DMac the Knife]

Whatever you eat do not use a straw! This actually stops the blood from clotting and prolongs the healing time. In addition to ease of eating, you don't want to eat anything too hot or cold; ice cream seems like it would be a good idea, but is not... I recently had a tooth extraction and ate a lots of soups, mashed potatoes, and rice at first. You might not be too hungry the first few days anyway as pain killers tend also to act as appetite suppressants, so keep hydrated.

 

[Instinct Blues]

After I got my wisdom teeth out I was eating jello, pudding, and mashed potatoes for a day or two until I could handle normal food. So those foods are good you don't really have a wide range of things to choose from after dental surgery which is another reason the dentist sucks.

 

[Bogwhiskers]

I had all four wisdom teeth out in one go, plus two extra cramping molars. Plus they cut into my sinuses by accident... and the day after the surgery I came down with the worse flu ever, so I was coughing and sneezing and opening up all the wounds constantly. It took a little over a week to heal up. To be on the safe side, don't go back to solids until a day or two after you don't need blood-soaking pads in your gums. It'll still be really soft back there and crunchy food could tear things up again before it's firmed up all the way.

Apart from smoothies and soup, I mostly drank Carnation Breakfast Essentials. You're supposed to make them with cold milk, but heating it up a bit so it's a little warm, like cocoa that's been sitting out for a while, will make it easier.

I kind of had to use a straw the first two days so I wasn't drinking my own blood...

 

[Arafiro]

A big chunk of well-done rump steak.






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Soup sounds like your best bet, maybe moving onto mashed potatoes soon after (put a lot of milk and/or butter in it).