Can you eat before tooth extraction

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Tooth extraction is the most commonly used treatment technique in stomatology. Because tooth extraction can cause local tissue damage, cause bleeding, swelling, pain and other reactions, can also lead to blood pressure, temperature, pulse fluctuations, so we must be careful. Can you eat before tooth extraction? Let's discuss this next.

Can you eat before tooth extraction

First of all, many patients believe that: before tooth extraction should maintain oral health, so as to ensure the safety of surgery, therefore, should not eat breakfast. In fact, this idea is wrong, do not eat breakfast may have serious consequences, so it is necessary to eat breakfast before tooth extraction.

Secondly, if patients do not eat breakfast before tooth extraction, it will lead to low blood sugar, and blood sugar will decline.

Finally, the decline of blood glucose makes the patient prone to syncope in the process of anesthetics and tooth extraction. In severe cases, the patient is unconscious and needs emergency rescue.

matters needing attention

It is forbidden to eat food within two hours after tooth extraction. It is also forbidden to eat spicy food after tooth extraction. If necessary, it can be treated with anti-inflammatory drugs.