This wasn't just oral surgery. You had titanium rods screwed into your jaw. If the bone rejects the implant, you're stuck with dentures for life. I have bad dental issues. If I was blessed to be able to afford implants, I wouldn't do anything that might ruin the opportunity.
Had oral urgery today & they asked me not to vape for a MONTH!!!!!!!!
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it'll give you dry sockets. or screw with other things depending on what you had done... It might make the sensitivity worse for the period where your mouth is healing.. But they always told me not to smoke after leaving the dentist when I was smoking, and I would light up in the car on the way back to the house..
try to take mouth hits rather than lung hits.. nice slow ones.. should be fine, If you feel pressure where the work was done while taking a toot stop.
** edit ** ah dental implants.. somehow i forgot that after reading it. In that case I would go with the guy above me's advice.
try to take mouth hits rather than lung hits.. nice slow ones.. should be fine, If you feel pressure where the work was done while taking a toot stop.
** edit ** ah dental implants.. somehow i forgot that after reading it. In that case I would go with the guy above me's advice.
Just got through tattooing this to the inside of my eyelids as to not forget it at my next dental visit...
I wouldn't know, but I can attest that it was worse pain than a dying gallbladder or a kidney stone. This might help the men out on pain comparisons.
With implants, I think I'd try to abstain for as long as I could.
I'm lucky: my dentist, my periodontist, and even the flipping hygienist are up to date with the science. Seems that the nicotine is not responsible for vascular constriction in the gums, and that people (even us) are just touting the same old assumptions:
The role of nicotine in bleeding - Registered Dental Hygienist
I'd watch out for dry socket though, and maybe buy an aerotank so you can use a lung hit setting.
The role of nicotine in bleeding - Registered Dental Hygienist
I'd watch out for dry socket though, and maybe buy an aerotank so you can use a lung hit setting.
I had dental surgery once when I was a gym rat and they told me to lay off the gym for a few weeks. Once I had the surgery (moler removed) I realized why. My mouth was throbbing from the swelling and my blood flow felt like it was being hampered by something. It was rather uncomfortable.
I would assume nicotine would have sent that feeling through the roof. Also you might need to be on heavy meds after your surgery. I was on heavy doses of vicodin for roughly 5 days afterwards. IMO nicotine and those types of drugs are a bad idea. The combination makes me toxic just thinking about it.
Good Luck
I would assume nicotine would have sent that feeling through the roof. Also you might need to be on heavy meds after your surgery. I was on heavy doses of vicodin for roughly 5 days afterwards. IMO nicotine and those types of drugs are a bad idea. The combination makes me toxic just thinking about it.
Good Luck
There's a few issues:
As lotso people have said, and I got a printout in bold no less after extractions: DO NOT DISTURB THE BLOOD CLOT! So that is one practical concern about vaping after extractions. But that's only a concern in the first 24 hours or so. (Probably even less.) You do, after all, have to start eating and drinking again.
Then there is the nicotine issue and it ......ing the healing process. I'm not sure how clear this issue is regarding vaping and the dental industry. I don't know if the harm is from vaping in this case, or if they don't understand the significantly lower levels of nicotine we are exposed to compared to smoking. That, and if there is any "vaping is the same thing as smoking" conjecture going around that makes them believe the oral surgery is exposed to smoke and tar and all that other stuff when we vape, which, of course, it isn't.
Dry socket just happens. It happens to non vapers as well. I can see a possibility that the hygroscopic nature of vaping might contribute to that but - probably not. My extractions were sutured closed - it's not as if the area is directly open to exposure from vaping. I still got a dry socket on one of the lower jaw extractions. My Dentist said it's almost always the lower jaw extractions that have a dry socket problem and they don't even know why that is. Just went back the next day, she pooshed a piece of treated wadding in there and all was fine from that point on. And no - my dry socket wasn't a "child birth" event either. Just a dull ache that was there - when none of the other extraction sites had that. Didn't even know that it was a dry socket was until my Dentist said that's what it was.
Surely not medical advice: I started vaping about six hours after a six extraction extravaganza. Not a lot and I was doing really easy pulls. My Dentist said at follow up she was actually surprised at how quickly I healed - way ahead of the curve. Not about to say that was because of vaping either - I've always been a fast healer. Vaping in my case didn't cause any problems - that's all.
As lotso people have said, and I got a printout in bold no less after extractions: DO NOT DISTURB THE BLOOD CLOT! So that is one practical concern about vaping after extractions. But that's only a concern in the first 24 hours or so. (Probably even less.) You do, after all, have to start eating and drinking again.
Then there is the nicotine issue and it ......ing the healing process. I'm not sure how clear this issue is regarding vaping and the dental industry. I don't know if the harm is from vaping in this case, or if they don't understand the significantly lower levels of nicotine we are exposed to compared to smoking. That, and if there is any "vaping is the same thing as smoking" conjecture going around that makes them believe the oral surgery is exposed to smoke and tar and all that other stuff when we vape, which, of course, it isn't.
Dry socket just happens. It happens to non vapers as well. I can see a possibility that the hygroscopic nature of vaping might contribute to that but - probably not. My extractions were sutured closed - it's not as if the area is directly open to exposure from vaping. I still got a dry socket on one of the lower jaw extractions. My Dentist said it's almost always the lower jaw extractions that have a dry socket problem and they don't even know why that is. Just went back the next day, she pooshed a piece of treated wadding in there and all was fine from that point on. And no - my dry socket wasn't a "child birth" event either. Just a dull ache that was there - when none of the other extraction sites had that. Didn't even know that it was a dry socket was until my Dentist said that's what it was.
Surely not medical advice: I started vaping about six hours after a six extraction extravaganza. Not a lot and I was doing really easy pulls. My Dentist said at follow up she was actually surprised at how quickly I healed - way ahead of the curve. Not about to say that was because of vaping either - I've always been a fast healer. Vaping in my case didn't cause any problems - that's all.
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First of all: I realize and acknowledge that every person is completely different.
Second: This is MY experience only and shouldn't be regarded as advice.
I have been getting all my upper teeth extracted two at a time. I am one of those who bleed a little excessively (but not anemic or "a free bleeder"). I have never had a dry socket nor have I hurt my gums by vaping immediately after extraction. Also it doesn't really hurt and I have had one molar pulled while not being all the way numb! I have never had that little prescription filled mainly because my dentist always prescribes lortabs instead of tylenol 3.
Second: This is MY experience only and shouldn't be regarded as advice.
I have been getting all my upper teeth extracted two at a time. I am one of those who bleed a little excessively (but not anemic or "a free bleeder"). I have never had a dry socket nor have I hurt my gums by vaping immediately after extraction. Also it doesn't really hurt and I have had one molar pulled while not being all the way numb! I have never had that little prescription filled mainly because my dentist always prescribes lortabs instead of tylenol 3.
I would be careful - one of my dentists cracked a crown (gee thanks a lot), which ended up with my having to have the tooth extracted. My next dentist said they won't do implants for someone who smokes, because you'll basically be out the mucho money you just invested (around 2K per tooth here!). Now, I don't know if it's because nicotine has some terrible impact on the implants from taking and staying put or if it's the dry sockets or slow healing that the other posters have had from personal experience. I only had one tooth to replace so chose a falsie instead as its in the back of my mouth. So I'd suggest you get as much info as you can as it pertains to the specific work you've had done before you make a decision whether to hang in there 4 weeks, give it 2 weeks or whatever.
Here's something specific to implants - and it makes sense. When I had my fractured tooth/crown removed, the bone shrank a lot and I have a dent in my cheek despite a collagen treatment - because I was smoking at the time. So it has something to do with the tissue around the implants and the bone the implant goes into. Anyway here it is ....
Smoking and dental implants Kasat V, Ladda R - J Int Soc Prevent Communit Dent
Smoking and dental implants Kasat V, Ladda R - J Int Soc Prevent Communit Dent
Let me ask you this...If you still smoked cigarettes, would you not smoke for even a day? Yeah. I would say just be careful, and pay good attention to what is going on. It is your body after all.
Great read Hulamoon, but it refers to data on smoking.
"Smoking has its influence on general as well as oral health of an individual."
Vapers don't smoke and that makes a big difference to the science.
I've had a few teeth pulled, and was a heave smoker. That's what I did....bit down on a gause pad (a thick one) and never had any problems. However when I got my wisdom teeth pulled I got a dry socket from eating, and it hurt like a ^%$#@ !!!
Dry socket is the sort of pain that has you keening like a wolf. You would kill someone to get rid of it. A tooth extraction would necessitate cutting out all sucking actions.....
Although when i had my implant done i smoked within half an hour and continued to smoke a pack a day and didn't have a problem.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Personally i wouldn't consider vaping much of a risk with an implant but would be very careful with an extraction.
Although when i had my implant done i smoked within half an hour and continued to smoke a pack a day and didn't have a problem.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Personally i wouldn't consider vaping much of a risk with an implant but would be very careful with an extraction.
weird my co-worker who refuses to vape had oral surgery and they told him he couldn't smoke but he could vape. He vaped for 3 days then went back to smoking anyway..
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