Image by adwriter via Flickr- Avoid cycling or excessive exercise for several hours. Ideally rest by sitting in a chair and use an extra pillow for the first night.
- Do not drink anything alcoholic for the first 24 hours and avoid smoking.
- Take any pain-killing tablets as advised by your dentist. Follow any instructions regarding dosage carefully.
- After six hours rinse your mouth gently with a warm salt solution [level teaspoon of salt to a cup of water] and continue after meals and before bed for seven days, or as advised by your dentist.
- You may feel the sharp edge of a socket with your tongue and occasionally small fragments of bone may work their way out. This is normal.
- Try not to disturb the socket with your tongue, by eating food on that side, or by vigorous rinsing. This will delay the healing process.
According to Billy...
- "You on a bike that'll be a first and the only exercise you do is Egyptian P.E, go on move that finger".
- "When I got any teeth out I'd be straight down to the pub and had a 'half-un'or maybe two or three"
- "Some of those dentists, you couldn't be sure about them and they charge the earth. For what? "
- "A warm salt solution, get down to the pub and get wasted and less of that shite. A warm salt solution, for fuck's sake"
- "Small fragments of bone, normal? My arse, if he did the job properly he'd have got the whole tooth and all the bloody fragments out"
- "Try not to disturb. You should still be wearing that I am disturbed t-shirt. Showing me that stupid list I'll delay the bloody healing process you wingnut"
2 comments:
Ouch. I feel your pain, my friend.
(Thought someone should make up for Billy)
Thanks Hails! :-)
I've had a lifetime of enduring an attitude similar to Billy's, my Mum was a nurse and should've worked for the Gestapo. Trying to get off school sick, was impossible with her.
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