The Best Soft Foods to Eat After Dental Implant Surgery

top soft foods to eat after dental implant surgery so your dental implant surgery is over and you're headed back home you get home and you're little hungry and you're wondering what can eat well I'm here to tell you I've got you covered hi I'm Dr Brett Langston I'm an experienced prosthodontist and director of dental implant and aesthetic specialists in Brookhaven Georgia and I'm here to help you watch your mouth so before we talk about what you can eat let's talk about couple things you want to avoid so you don't want to irritate the area right after surgery and so you can help the healing go better take care to only have cold drinks and definitely be careful until after the numbness wears off we don't want you biting on your cheek or tongue thinking it's something to eat the worry is if you have hot foods you might not be able to tell if you're burning or traumatizing the tissue so definitely wait until the anesthetic wears off before you start chewing and eating it may seem like common sense but don't probe the area with your finger or tongue lot of times with sutures we want the tissue to stay closed and not manipulated so if you go in there probing and exploring and looking around and grabbing your lip to pull it down and look in the mirror you're going to rip the sutures and you're going to cause the healing to be delayed also one thing to remember is for the first 48 Hours you won't avoid anything strenuous so no going to the gym no cycling classes no yard work you know normal chores around the house are okay but you just don't want to get your heart rate up too high because extra blood pumping the heart rate can cause the area to cause damage and not let it heal properly so the key thing to remember is while you're healing from surgery whether it's single tooth implant or whether it's full Arch implant extractions anything along those lines soft foods are going to be the key for the first 24 to 48 hours know everybody wants to get back to eating and you want to test out if you have new Appliance but the key thing with soft foods is that you're not going to cause any more damage if you eat something hard whether it's nacho chips something anything with hard edge of crusty breads lot of times you can damage that tissue and you need to remember that right after surgery that tissue is very vulnerable so you need to protect it and soft foods will definitely allow you to eat get the things you need without causing any damage nothing with small seeds or pits so an everything bagel is nothing to you until you're healed so you may be wondering what are some soft foods that can eat some great things mashed potatoes yogurt mushed up fruit or applesauce now know you're not baby know you're not 80 years old but applesauce does great job of kind of soothing the area one thing like to tell my patients is ice cream and frosties from Wendy's are great because not only are they cold so they help kind of numb the area but they're very easy to eat and they're very tasty but don't get the peppermint one you don't want those little peppermint pieces getting in the healing sites yeah Wendy's getting in on it now you know Chick-fil-A has like the peppermint Wendy's is doing one now also think yeah and must say for the record this is not sponsored by Wendy's but call me if you want to eating frosty often get asked whether dental implants can actually break and it can't happen in this next video click on the link and I'll show you how until that time I'm Dr Brett Langston helping you watch your mouth