Immediately After Dental Implant Surgery Usually you will experience some light bleeding, seeping, and swelling. We ask that you not pull on your lip to view the surgical site or poke at it with your tongue or fingers. Your local anesthesia will begin wearing off a few hours after getting your dental implants.
Recovery time fully depends on the dental implant surgery. For most people, recovery time is only 1-2 days. However, if you have more than one implant procedure completed, or if you need bone grafts, recovery time can take longer. If the latter is the case, most recovery times are around 1-2 weeks.
You'll Feel Pain And Discomfort For At Least A Week
For the first few hours after your procedure, you won't feel much. Your mouth will still be numb, and you may still be feeling the effects of dental sedation if you opted to be sedated during your procedure. After these effects wear off, however, some pain is normal.
Side effects that are normal and expected include swelling around the gums and in your face, slight bruising, pain at the implant site, and minor bleeding. It's usually recommended to avoid hard foods during healing, and your oral surgeon may prescribe pain medication or antibiotics after surgery to help you heal.
Go home to rest and relax. We recommend taking the day off of work, if possible. Though some patients do work the day after their surgery, having an extra day to heal can be beneficial.
If you're only receiving 1-2 implants, you can expect an easier and shorter recovery, meaning you can return to work rather quickly. Conversely, if you're receiving more than a few implants, you should consider taking 1-2 days off work to allow swelling, bruising, discomfort, and other side effects to subside.
Avoid heavy lifting, bending over, excessive physical exertion, exercise during the first few days following your surgery. For optimal results we ask that you refrain from these activities for 2 weeks. Do not smoke for at least 2 weeks. Doing so will compromise healing and may lead to failure of the surgery.
The pain that patients feel when they get dental implant surgery is actually not from the hole made in the bone or the placement of the implant — the pain usually comes from the soft tissue manipulation that occurs during the process.
In most cases, the discomfort will peak within about 3-5 days after your treatment, and then begin to subside relatively quickly. By the end of your first week post-surgery, you should be feeling little, if any, discomfort and pain.
Patients can be informed that, in general, implant placement surgical experience is less unpleasant compared to tooth extraction with less postsurgical pain and limitation of daily activities. However, some factors can increase the pain intensity and discomfort level on individual bases.
To keep your dental implant securely in place for decades to come, a small titanium post will be placed into your jawbone. Since this requires oral surgery, it's completely natural to feel a little tired or sore afterwards. After all, your mouth needs time to adapt to the major change it just underwent.
If you feel comfortable enough after the first day, then you can choose to lay on your side, but continue to keep your body elevated, with your neck still above heart level.
Insertion site care: ○ Bruising and swelling at the site are common in the first 24 hours after placement. Keep the dressing on for 24 hours. After 24 hours, you can remove the dressing and take a shower or bath.
Dental implant surgery involves trauma to both the gums and the jaw. The surgery itself should not involve any pain since the mouth will be numbed. As the numbness wears off, though, patients will often feel some level of pain.
In general, there are three steps involved in the dental implant procedures. First, the implant itself is placed into the jawbone. Next, the abutment is added to the implant, which is where the artificial tooth will be connected. Finally, the prosthetic tooth, or crown, is placed onto the abutment.
When You First Receive Your New Teeth. Once your prosthetic teeth are attached to your implants, they may feel a little odd in your mouth. After all, you may have gotten used to having some gaps in your smile. You might produce extra saliva, and your gums may be a little tender.
With numbed nerves, you can expect not to feel any pain during your dental implant procedure. You may feel pressure at times, but it should not cause you discomfort. For patients who have anxiety with dental procedures, oral sedation is available.
The procedure itself takes 1 to 2 hours and the healing time is 3 to 6 months. During this time the titanium alloy (the same material used in joint replacement) implant will heal around and merge with the surrounding bone tissue. No other load bearing medical implant has as rapid healing or recovery times.
Your pain may be accompanied by swelling, inflammation, bruising, and tenderness near the treatment site(s). For most patients, this pain will peak sometime between 48-72 hours after surgery, and will then begin to fade relatively quickly. Overall, the pain you'll experience is relatively minor.
When it comes to sleeping position following dental surgery, it is a good idea to make sure to elevate the head. A good angle to achieve while sleeping is 45 degrees. You should sleep in the position for the first 36 to 48 hours following the surgery.
If you wait longer to replace a missing tooth, tooth shifting may occur. As a result, your teeth tilt towards the space without a tooth, increasing the risk of infection.
It should go without saying that water should be your drink of choice not just after getting a dental implant but all the time. Water will help wash away any bacteria and other debris caught in your teeth. It will also keep you hydrated and won't harm your stitches at all.
Light to moderate exercise the day following surgery will help reduce swelling and help you feel well. Get up, move around, take a shower, and participate in normal activities as much as possible.