I Want A New Drug

Don’t hope that you will be prescribed some of the more fun legal painkillers on the market to dull your pain after dental implant surgery.  Your pain just won’t be that bad.  Depending on your views of legal painkillers, this will be either good news or bad news.  But taking morphine for pain after dental implant surgery is a bit like killing a mosquito with a Howitzer.  Sure, it kills the mosquito, but then you’re going to have deal with a mighty unhappy person that mosquito was sitting on.

You might also be comforted to know that over the counter painkillers will be more than adequate to remove any pain after dental implant surgery that you will experience.  This doesn’t mean that your pain or discomfort is anything somehow “less” than someone with a mild headache.  This means that over the counter painkillers are a lot more effective than sometimes we give them credit for.

You will most likely get a prescription from your dentist or oral surgeon for antibiotics.  This is standard procedure anytime you have a body part that goes under the knife.  When your body is open, it’s party time for any wandering bacteria, including bacteria that hang out on the skin and are otherwise benign.

When You’re Sore

After mouth surgery, your mouth is going to be sore and maybe a bit swollen.  Don’t paint it with Anbesol.  Just use an ice pack to help reduce the swelling and the pain.  You also want to remember that this pain after dental implant surgery is not going to be a permanent thing in your life.  Eventually, it will go away.  The first week is generally the worst, and then it gradually gets better.

And then one day you wake up, go throughout your day and are just about getting back into bed when you suddenly realize that your mouth hasn’t been bothering you.  There won’t be any dramatic fanfares, but the pain will go away.

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The Mind As Painkiller

Some people say, “I don’t want to know about dental implants and any pain involved.  I’ll be so scared then that I won’t get the procedure.”  However, you should find out all you can about dental implants and pain involved in as much detail as possible before you actually go under the knife.  You’ll find out that the pain really isn’t that bad.

Pain can feel far more intense if you don’t know why you are going through the pain.  For example, the first major migraine this writer had was accompanied by a massive panic attack because I did not know that I was having a migraine.  I didn’t know what was going on.  That fear made that migraine the worst migraine of my life.  When I realized what was happening, then the pain lessened (a little).

Also, your mind can generate great and frightening expectations of how bad the pain can be. The anticipation of how bad it could be can obscure the fact that the pain just isn’t that bad.  When you know how bad the discomfort will be, how long it lasts and that the pain is normal, then it winds up not being so painful.

Who Do You Trust?

Now, you have to exercise some common sense when researching dental implants and pain involved.  You don’t want to ask Stephen King.  You want to ask someone who has not only gone through the procedure, but who is someone you can reasonably trust.  You want to ask you parents friends, your parents and your own friends.  You could also ask any trusted co-workers or business associates.

You should also ask the dentist or dental surgeon, but you already know they’re going to assure you that dental implants and pain are not that bad.  They’re not idiots.  If they told you the truth, you’d be out the door and never come back.  The truth is that the pain is worse for some people than others.  It’s more annoying than painful and lasts for weeks until your mouth adjusts to it.

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