After performing dental extraction on a patient, usually she wants to assure that I have prescribed some medicines for “drying up” the wound or some patients say —-please give some medicines which will help in the healing of the extraction wound.
My whole professional experience teaches me that so many medicines ( antibiotics and pain-killers etc.) are not at all required after a dental extraction provided the same has been performed by a qualified dental surgeon who are well-trained in following a aseptic technique.
Frankly speaking, consuming a lot of medicines after getting treatment from an unqualified is no substitute for good professional care or good sterilization practice.
What do I do ? — Most of the times, I dont prescribe an antibiotic to my patients after dental extraction. I just prescribe some pain-killers and instruct them to take these in case these are really required. And from the day following dental extraction, if the patient starts rinsing his mouth with warm saline gargles, the healing just happens quite smoothly without need for any antibiotics etc.
So, after dental extraction one must not ask his dentist to prescribe some medicines for faster healing —-let him decide as per his professional experience and clinical acumen. We need to remember that healing after a dental extraction is very much a natural phenomenon — we need to just do little for this except to keep our oral cavity neat and clean.
Healing of the extraction would just happens naturally — it does not need any external help of antibiotics and other drug. It is something difficult to digest by laymen but it is a fact. Just salute the Mother Nature.
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