After your treatment
Aftercare instructions
Choose the treatment you had. Each page covers the first days of healing, eating and cleaning, what is normal, and when to call.
Instructions by treatment
- After a gum graft
- After dental implant placement
- After a tooth extraction or socket graft
- After pocket-reduction or regenerative gum surgery
- After a deep cleaning (scaling and root planing)
- After a sinus lift
- Before and after IV sedation
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you have trouble breathing or swallowing, or swelling that spreads toward your eye or down your neck.