Dental Health Magazine Dental Health Digital Issue | Page 38

Issue #5, March 2017
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FIGURE 5 CBCT SCAN SHOWS
TRANSVERSELY IMPACTED TEETH
FACING LINGUALLY INSTEAD OF THE
MORE COMMON MESIOANGLE.
ischemia of tissues which leads to patients. Surgeons should place great
tissue necrosis which is painful and emphasis on maintaining a patient’s
causes swelling. oral hygiene to ensure that an extraction
socket heals uneventfully. As long as
oral hygiene is kept in check, one may
5 MEDICATIONS wisdoms are antibiotics, pain killers socket. When the socket’s clean, there
and antiswelling. Emphasis is given will be no problems.
not even need to be put on a liquid diet
nor bite on a single side for initial days
Medications are important for swelling after surgery. A patient may have normal
and pain control. Medications given diet, eat and bite as normal as long as
before and after a minor surgical they gargle thoroughly after meal times
procedure such as removing impacted to prevent food from lodging into the
on medications which have high
initial dose and short duration. High
initial dose means the duration of
onset is quick and duration of taking
medication is short e.g. 3 days.
6 ORAL HYGIENE
MAINTENANCE
Maintenance of oral hygiene is an
area where it is typically neglected by
Article by :
Dato’ Dr How Kim Chuan &
Dr Cheong Jian Haw