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| Pre-Surgical Instruction |  It is better for you to follow the pre-surgical instruction. You have to understand that before tooth extraction care and proper dental instructions may contribute to your health and well-being.
Benefits of Correct Dental Care and Instructions:
 Make post-surgical infection less likely or less severe.
Decrease local bleeding at the time of the surgery and after.
Encourage post-surgical healing.
Before Tooth Extraction Measures
 Alcohol restrictions – alcohol should be suspended before and after the surgical procedure.
Transport to and from the appointment - when a general anesthetic or light sedation is used, the patient should not drive. Arrange for someone to accompany and assist the patient should be made.
The night before the appointment – a good night rest is recommended.
Personal items – your clothes should be baggy and comfortable. The sleeves should be easily lifted up over the elbows.
Contact lenses and dentures – you should remove contact lenses and dentures, by the way, don’t forget the containers for their safe keeping.
Keeping Infection Under Control
The removal of teeth can permit germs in the mouth to enter the bloodstream and cause infections in other parts of your body.
In case if you have difficulty fighting off infections you may need to take antibiotics before tooth extraction. The following categories of people are at risk of this:
Have had bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the lining of the heart.
Have damaged or artificial heart valves.
Were born with heart defects.
Have artificial joints, like a hip replacement.
Have diabetes or another disease that results as an impaired immune system.
Take steroids for other conditions, like Crohn's disease or asthma.
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