Foods to Eat After Tooth Extraction and What to Avoid

After a tooth extraction, eat cool, smooth, very soft foods that need no chewing at all for the first 24 to 48 hours, such as yogurt, applesauce, mashed potatoes, pudding, and blended soups served lukewarm. Avoid straws, hot food and drinks, crunchy or sharp foods, sticky candy, spicy and acidic items, alcohol, and smoking while the blood clot in the socket is still forming.

Your diet loosens up in stages. The first two days are a no-chew stage, days three through seven allow soft solids like scrambled eggs and flaky fish, and most people return to regular meals in the second week. Below we walk through each stage, what to drink, what to keep off the menu, how to eat without pulling on the blood clot, and how the timeline shifts if a wisdom tooth was removed instead of a front or side tooth.

What Foods Can You Eat After Tooth Extraction?

The foods you can eat after a tooth extraction are soft, cool, and smooth ones that need little or no chewing, and the list widens as the socket heals. Safe eating after an extraction is driven by texture and temperature, not by any single food list. Anything that crumbles into sharp pieces, pulls at tissue, or arrives hot works against the blood clot sitting in the socket.

That blood clot is the whole reason the rules exist. When a tooth comes out, blood fills the empty socket and clots within a few hours, and the clot acts as a living bandage over exposed bone and nerve endings. Exposed bone and nerve endings are what produce the severe pain of dry socket, so every food choice for the next week either protects that clot or threatens it.

Tooth removal is common enough that these rules reach millions of people a year. Published procedural data cited in clinical trial literature puts roughly 10 million third molars removed from about 5 million people in the United States annually, at a yearly cost above 3 billion dollars. Those millions of recoveries follow the same three-stage pattern, and the South Australian public dental service notes that most people gradually return to their regular diet within one to two weeks.

Recovery PhaseTimingTexture RuleFoods That WorkWhat to SkipNo-chew stageFirst 24 to 48 hoursSpoonable, cool to lukewarm, no piecesYogurt, applesauce, mashed potatoes, mashed banana, pudding, gelatin, cooled broth, blended soup, protein shakes taken with a spoonStraws, hot liquids, anything crunchy, seeds, alcoholSoft solid stageDays 3 to 7Mashes with a fork, chewed away from the siteScrambled eggs, cottage cheese, soft pasta, oatmeal, cream of wheat, flaky salmon or tilapia, avocado, well cooked carrots, sweet potato, tofu, refried beansChips, nuts, popcorn, raw vegetables, caramel, gum, tough meat, hot sauce, citrusReturn stageWeek 2 onwardRegular textures, reintroduced slowlyCooked chicken, sandwich bread, rice, soft fruit, cooked vegetables, then steak and crusty bread lastAnything that hurts to chew, which signals the site needs more time

Each stage builds on the one before it, so the first 48 hours set the tone for everything that follows.

What Can You Eat in the First 24 to 48 Hours After Tooth Extraction?

In the first 24 to 48 hours after a tooth extraction you can eat liquids and very soft foods that require no chewing, including yogurt without fruit chunks, applesauce, mashed potatoes, mashed banana, pudding, gelatin, cooled broth, and blended vegetable soup. Nothing in this window should be hot, crunchy, seeded, or sipped through a straw.

Temperature carries more weight in this window than most people expect. Heat widens the blood vessels around the socket, which can restart bleeding or soften a clot that has only just stabilized, so soups and broths belong at lukewarm rather than steaming. Lukewarm also happens to be more comfortable, since the tissue around a fresh extraction site is tender for the first two days.

Bleeding follows its own short schedule alongside eating. Oral surgery post-operative guidance reports that most bleeding slows within three to four hours, while light oozing remains normal for up to 24 hours, which is why gauze, pressure, and stillness matter more than food during the first afternoon. Once the gauze comes out and the bleeding settles, a cold, spoonable meal is the gentlest way to get calories back in.

Calories matter because the socket has work ahead of it. A socket that heals cleanly is also the foundation for whatever comes next, since dental implants can only be placed after the bone and gum tissue have settled into a stable shape.

What Is the Safest Food to Eat After Tooth Extraction?

The safest food to eat after a tooth extraction is plain yogurt, because it is cool, smooth, needs zero chewing, carries protein for tissue repair, and contains no chunks, seeds, or acid that could lodge in the socket. Plain yogurt also passes the spoon test, meaning it can be placed on the tongue and swallowed without drawing it across the extraction site. Cottage cheese, applesauce, and mashed potatoes sit in the same safety tier for the same reasons.

Avoid the versions of those foods that hide hazards. Fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt carries seeds and chunks, granola turns a safe food into a crunchy one, and citrus-forward smoothies add acid that stings open tissue.

How Long Until You Can Eat Anything After Tooth Extraction?

You can eat anything soft within a few hours of a tooth extraction, as soon as the numbness from local anesthesia fully wears off, but you cannot eat genuinely anything, meaning normal firm food, until roughly 7 to 10 days later. Waiting out the numbness prevents an accidental bite to a cheek, lip, or tongue that cannot be felt yet.

Numbness from local anesthesia typically fades in two to four hours, and the first meal after it fades should still be spoonable. Spoonable meals stay the rule for the rest of that day and all of the next.

What Can You Eat on Days 3 to 7 After Tooth Extraction?

On days 3 to 7 after a tooth extraction you can eat soft solids that mash easily with a fork, including scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, soft pasta, macaroni and cheese, oatmeal, cream of wheat, flaky fish such as salmon or tilapia, avocado, well cooked carrots, sweet potato, tofu, and soft cooked beans. The rule that carries through this stage is to chew on the opposite side of the mouth from the extraction site.

Chewing on the opposite side protects the socket from direct pressure while the gum tissue closes across it. Gum tissue closing across the socket is also why food starts feeling easier around day four or five, and most people notice the change as a drop in soreness rather than as a sudden ability to bite down.

Recovery in this stage costs real time, which is worth planning around. Published US procedural data records an average of 4.9 lost work days per wisdom tooth procedure, so scheduling soft meals in advance removes one decision from a week that already has fewer good hours in it.

Patients who had a tooth removed ahead of a replacement often ask how chewing will feel once the gap is filled, and the answer depends on which route they take, whether that is implants or dentures.

When Can You Start Chewing Again After Tooth Extraction?

You can start chewing again around day three after a tooth extraction, using the opposite side of your mouth, and you can chew directly over the extraction site once it stops feeling tender, which is usually somewhere between day 7 and day 14. Tenderness is the signal to follow, not the calendar.

Start with foods that break apart under light pressure, such as soft pasta or well cooked vegetables, before testing anything that needs a real bite. If a bite produces a sharp or throbbing response, step back to soft foods for another day or two and try again.

When Can You Eat Normal Food Again After Tooth Extraction?

You can eat normal food again roughly 7 to 10 days after a simple tooth extraction, and most people are back to a fully regular diet within two weeks. Reintroduce normal food in order of firmness, starting with cooked chicken, rice, and soft bread, and saving steak, crusty bread, chips, and raw salads for last.

Surface comfort arrives well before the socket is finished. Clinical literature on alveolar ridge preservation reports that complete soft tissue closure over an open socket takes about four weeks, with new bone trabeculae forming by roughly six weeks, so the mouth feels normal long before the bone underneath has filled in. Filling in is a slow background process that regular eating does not disturb once the gum has closed over the top.

How quickly a person crosses that line varies with age, smoking status, the complexity of the extraction, and general health. Anyone who notices new pain, swelling, or sensitivity in nearby teeth after eating returns to normal should have the area looked at, since those are the same early damaged teeth signals that show up in other conditions.

For patients who had the tooth removed with a plan to replace it, the healed socket opens the door to the full range of tooth replacement options, and the timing of that conversation usually lands at the follow-up visit.

What Foods Help Speed Up Tooth Extraction Healing?

The foods that help speed up tooth extraction healing are protein-rich soft foods and foods high in vitamin C, vitamin A, iron, and zinc, because those nutrients drive collagen production, immune defense, and new tissue formation at the socket. Greek yogurt, scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, tofu, soft fish, avocado, sweet potato, and pureed berries deliver all four nutrients in textures that are safe from day one.

Vitamin C earns the most attention because collagen cannot be built without it. The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine sets the recommended daily allowance for vitamin C at 90 milligrams for men and 75 milligrams for women, and a healing wound consumes it faster than a resting body does. A randomized split-mouth clinical trial published in the International Journal of Dentistry in 2022 found that 600 milligrams of vitamin C daily, taken in three doses for 10 days after extraction, reduced both extraction wound size and postoperative pain compared with placebo.

Protein does the structural work that vitamin C makes possible. Fibroblasts build the new connective tissue that fills the socket, and they need a steady amino acid supply to do it, which is why a soft-food week built entirely on applesauce and gelatin tends to heal slower than one that includes eggs, yogurt, and soft fish. Soft fish such as salmon and tilapia flake apart under a fork and carry protein along with vitamin D, and the South Australian public dental service specifically names protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, and iron as essential for tissue repair after dental surgery.

Nutrition also helps the immune side of healing, which matters because the socket is an open wound in a bacteria-rich environment. A site that becomes infected rather than healing cleanly can progress into a dental abscess, and good nutrition plus gentle cleaning lowers that risk. At our Cherry Hill practice we tell patients to think of the first week as a protein week rather than a pudding week, because the people who eat well through it are the ones who report the smoothest recoveries.

What Can You Drink After Tooth Extraction?

You can drink water, milk, lukewarm broth, and smoothies taken with a spoon after a tooth extraction, and you should avoid alcohol, carbonated drinks, citrus juices, and anything hot until the socket has closed over. Every drink goes into a cup and gets sipped, never pulled through a straw.

Water leads the list for a practical reason. Sipping water regularly clears food particles from around the site, keeps the mouth moist, and supports circulation to the healing tissue without introducing sugar, acid, or carbonation. Carbonation is worth singling out, since the bubbles in soda and sparkling water create fizzing pressure directly over a clot that is holding on by very little in the first days.

Does Drinking a Lot of Water Help Prevent Dry Sockets?

Drinking a lot of water helps prevent dry socket indirectly, by rinsing food debris away from the site, keeping tissue hydrated, and replacing drinks that actively raise risk, though water alone does not prevent dry socket on its own. The prevention that matters most is mechanical, meaning no suction, no smoking, and no vigorous swishing.

Sip water steadily rather than gulping it, because a hard swallow creates the same brief pressure change inside the mouth that a straw does. Steady sipping from a cup delivers the hydration benefit with none of that pressure.

When Can You Have Coffee After Tooth Extraction?

You can have coffee about 48 to 72 hours after a tooth extraction, and it must be served lukewarm or iced rather than hot. Hot coffee raises blood flow to the socket and can soften or dislodge the clot, which is the single reason coffee is restricted at all.

Caffeine also raises blood pressure slightly, which can prolong oozing in the first day. Iced coffee without a straw is the safest way back to the habit, and adding milk rather than citrus-flavored syrups keeps the acid level down.

When Can You Drink Alcohol After Tooth Extraction?

You can drink alcohol about 7 days after a tooth extraction, once the socket has visibly closed over and any prescribed medication has finished. Alcohol thins the blood, dries the tissue, interferes with clot stability, and interacts with common pain medications, which is a combination worth waiting out.

Beer and sparkling wine carry the added problem of carbonation. Anyone who had a surgical extraction should give it the full 7 to 10 days rather than the shorter window.

What Foods and Habits Should You Avoid After Tooth Extraction?

The foods and habits to avoid after a tooth extraction are straws, hot food and drinks, crunchy or hard foods, sticky or chewy foods, spicy and acidic foods, alcohol, and smoking. Each item on that list either creates suction, adds heat, adds sharp fragments, or pulls at the tissue holding the clot in place.

  • Straws. The sucking motion creates negative pressure inside the mouth that can lift the clot straight out of the socket.

  • Hot food and beverages. Heat widens blood vessels at the site, which can restart bleeding or dissolve a young clot.

  • Crunchy, hard, and sharp foods. Chips, nuts, popcorn, crusty bread, and raw vegetables shatter into fragments that lodge in the open socket.

  • Sticky and chewy foods. Caramel, toffee, gum, and tough meat grip the healing tissue and pull on it as they release.

  • Spicy and acidic foods. Hot sauce, vinegar dressings, and citrus juices sting exposed tissue and irritate the wound margin.

  • Seeds and small grains. Sesame, poppy, quinoa, and berry seeds are small enough to slip into the socket and stay there.

  • Alcohol and smoking. Both slow clotting and delay tissue repair, and smoking adds suction on top of that.

Patients who wear a removable appliance have one extra step, since food packs easily under the plate. Anyone eating around partial dentures should rinse the appliance after every meal during the recovery week and follow whatever wear schedule their dentist set after the extraction.

Why Sipping From a Cup Beats Using a Straw

Sipping from a cup beats using a straw because a cup delivers liquid without creating suction, while a straw creates a pressure drop inside the mouth that can pull the clot out of the socket. The pressure drop is the mechanism, not the straw itself, which is why hard swallowing, spitting, and drawing on a cigarette all carry the same risk.

Tip the cup toward the unaffected side of the mouth and let the liquid pool on the tongue before swallowing gently. Gentle swallowing keeps the cheeks relaxed, and relaxed cheeks produce almost no suction at all.

When Can You Smoke After Tooth Extraction?

You can smoke at the earliest 72 hours after a simple tooth extraction, and you should wait 7 to 10 days after a surgical or wisdom tooth extraction. Smoking combines the suction of inhaling with nicotine's narrowing effect on blood vessels, and narrowed blood vessels deliver less oxygen to the tissue trying to rebuild.

The evidence on this is unusually consistent. A 2022 systematic review published in Dentistry Journal found that tobacco smokers carry more than a three-fold increase in the odds of dry socket after tooth extraction, with dry socket occurring in roughly 13.2 percent of smokers compared with 3.8 percent of non-smokers. Vaping produces the same inhaling suction and belongs under the same waiting period.

What Foods to Eat to Avoid Dry Socket?

To avoid dry socket, eat foods that are smooth, cool, and swallowable without chewing during the first 48 hours, such as yogurt, applesauce, pudding, mashed potatoes, mashed banana, and cooled blended soups, then move to fork-soft foods like scrambled eggs and soft pasta for the rest of the first week. No food prevents dry socket by itself, but foods that need no chewing and produce no fragments remove most of the ways a clot gets disturbed.

Dry socket, known clinically as alveolar osteitis, is less common than the internet suggests but genuinely painful when it happens. A Cochrane systematic review puts the rate at 1 to 5 percent of routine dental extractions, rising to as high as 30 percent for surgically removed lower third molars. A 2025 single-surgeon retrospective study of 3,033 lower third molar extractions across 2,384 patients recorded an overall rate of 2.6 percent, with 3.3 percent in female patients compared with 1.4 percent in male patients.

Age shifts the odds as well. The same retrospective study found dry socket in 0.7 percent of patients in their early twenties compared with 4.2 percent of patients in their late thirties, which means older patients benefit from holding the soft-food rules a day or two longer. Anyone who develops the deep, radiating ache of a disturbed clot should be seen quickly, and emergency dental care exists precisely for that kind of problem.

What Is the Number One Cause of Dry Socket?

The number one cause of dry socket is loss of the blood clot from the extraction socket, most often triggered by smoking, suction from straws, vigorous rinsing or spitting, and the surgical trauma involved in difficult extractions. Loss of the clot leaves bone and nerve endings exposed to air, food, and fluid, which produces the sharp radiating pain that defines the condition.

Poor oral hygiene during recovery compounds it by allowing bacteria to break the clot down chemically. Bacterial breakdown of the clot is the reason gentle cleaning matters as much as gentle eating.

What Day Is the Biggest Risk for Dry Socket?

The biggest risk for dry socket falls on days 2 through 4 after a tooth extraction, with most cases appearing in that window and the overall risk range running from day 1 to day 5. The clot has formed by then but has not yet been replaced by granulation tissue, so it is stable enough to feel fine and fragile enough to be lost.

Risk falls steadily after day 5 as new tissue grows across the socket. By day 7 to 10 the socket in most patients is covered well enough that dry socket becomes unlikely.

Why Is Day 3 the Worst Day After a Tooth Extraction?

Day 3 is the worst day after a tooth extraction because inflammation peaks around 48 to 72 hours, swelling and stiffness reach their maximum at the same time, and dry socket pain, when it occurs, most often begins in that exact window. A systematic review on dry socket risk places the onset of that pain between one and five days after extraction, clustering in the middle of that range.

Normal day 3 discomfort and dry socket pain feel different. Normal soreness stays localized and responds to the medication schedule, while dry socket pain builds rather than fades, radiates toward the ear, jaw, or temple, and often arrives with a foul taste.

How to Eat and Swallow Without Disturbing the Blood Clot

To eat and swallow without disturbing the blood clot, take small bites, place food on the side of the mouth away from the socket, chew slowly with light pressure, and swallow with the lips parted rather than sealed. A sealed-lip swallow creates the same suction as a straw, and parting the lips slightly releases that pressure entirely.

The full method takes a few meals to become automatic:

  1. Wait until the numbness from anesthesia has fully worn off before the first meal.

  2. Serve everything at cool or lukewarm temperature, never hot.

  3. Load a small spoonful, about half the usual bite size.

  4. Place the food on the tongue toward the opposite side from the extraction site.

  5. Chew with light pressure on that opposite side only.

  6. Swallow with the lips slightly apart so no vacuum forms inside the mouth.

  7. Sip water from a cup afterward to clear any residue, without swishing.

  8. Starting 24 hours after the extraction, follow the meal with a gentle salt water rinse.

Technique matters more for some patients than others. A prospective study of 238 third molar patients published in Cureus found that smoking carried an odds ratio of 6.41 for dry socket and poor oral hygiene carried an odds ratio of 9.53, which means how well the site is kept clean weighs as heavily as any single food choice. Patients who fall into either group and feel something change at the site should ask for a same-day visit rather than waiting for the scheduled follow-up.

How Do You Know If You Dislodged the Blood Clot?

You know you dislodged the blood clot when pain that had been improving suddenly worsens two to four days after the extraction, the socket looks empty or shows whitish bone instead of a dark red clot, the pain radiates toward the ear or temple, and a bad taste or odor develops. Improvement reversing itself is the clearest single signal.

A socket that still holds its clot looks dark red or brownish and sits slightly below the gum line. Whitish tissue at the edges of a socket is usually normal granulation tissue rather than bone, so appearance alone is not a diagnosis, and a quick look from your dentist settles it.

When Can You Stop Worrying About Dislodging the Blood Clot?

You can stop worrying about dislodging the blood clot around day 7 to 10 after a tooth extraction, once granulation tissue has replaced the clot and soft tissue has begun closing across the socket. From that point the socket is protected by tissue that is attached rather than by a clot that is merely resting in place.

Straws, smoking, and hard swishing stay off the list through that full window for anyone who had a surgical extraction. Everyone else can relax the suction rules after the first week while still chewing carefully for a few more days.

What Should You Do on the First Night After Tooth Extraction?

On the first night after a tooth extraction you should keep your head elevated on an extra pillow, take any prescribed medication on schedule, eat only cool spoonable food, apply a cold compress in 20 minute intervals for swelling, and avoid rinsing, spitting, smoking, and straws entirely. Do not rinse the mouth at all during the first 24 hours, because rinsing on day one is the single most common way a fresh clot is lost.

Elevation limits the throbbing that comes with lying flat, since a flat head position raises blood pressure at the surgical site. Sleeping on the opposite side from the extraction keeps direct pressure off it as well.

The first night is also when problems announce themselves. Bleeding that soaks through gauze after several hours, swelling that worsens rather than peaks, or pain that outruns the medication all justify a call rather than waiting until morning, and the same logic applies to any dental issue where delay makes treatment harder, which is why we tell patients not to put off seeing an emergency dentist.

Does Salt Water Stop a Dry Socket?

Salt water does not stop a dry socket that has already formed, but gentle salt water rinsing starting 24 hours after the extraction helps prevent one by clearing food debris and bacteria from around the socket without disturbing the clot. An established dry socket needs professional treatment, since the exposed bone requires cleaning and a medicated dressing.

Standard oral surgery post-operative guidance sets the mix at half a teaspoon of salt dissolved in 8 ounces of warm water, used gently three to four times a day and after meals, beginning the day after surgery. Let the solution fall out of the mouth into the sink rather than spitting it, because spitting creates suction.

When Can You Brush Your Teeth After Tooth Extraction?

You can brush your teeth 24 hours after a tooth extraction, brushing all other teeth normally while keeping the brush head away from the extraction site for the first 72 hours. Skipping brushing entirely raises bacterial load in the mouth, which works against the socket rather than protecting it.

Use a soft bristled brush and light pressure near the site, and skip alcohol-based mouthwash for the first week because it dries and irritates healing tissue. Flossing resumes around the site once the tenderness fades, and the next dental exam is a good moment to confirm the area healed the way it should.

Does Eating After a Wisdom Tooth Extraction Differ From a Simple Extraction?

Eating after a wisdom tooth extraction does differ from a simple extraction, because wisdom tooth removal is usually surgical, involves bone removal and stitches, creates a larger socket, and extends the soft-food period from roughly 3 to 5 days out to 7 to 10 days. The food lists are identical, but every timeline in the recovery stretches by about a week.

The difference shows up in the risk numbers. A Cochrane systematic review reports dry socket in 1 to 5 percent of routine extractions compared with rates reaching 30 percent after surgical removal of lower third molars, and lower wisdom teeth carry more risk than upper ones because gravity works against the socket and food collects there. Food collecting in a lower socket is also why surgical patients are often given an irrigating syringe to use from around day five onward.

Practical differences follow from the size of the wound. Wisdom tooth patients usually deal with more swelling, more jaw stiffness that makes wide bites difficult, and stitches that dissolve over one to two weeks, so bite-sized soft food matters even more than it does after a simple extraction. Anyone whose swelling, bleeding, or pain moves in the wrong direction during that stretch should be seen promptly, and urgent dental care is the right path when something clearly is not settling.

Simple extractions of front, side, or upper teeth follow the faster track. Those patients are typically on soft solids by day three and back to regular meals within a week.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Quickly Will You Know If You Have a Dry Socket?

You will know you have a dry socket within two to four days of the extraction, because that is when the pain appears and it is distinctive enough to be hard to miss. The pain builds instead of fading, spreads toward the ear, jaw, and temple on the same side, and does not respond well to over-the-counter medication. A bad taste or odor from the site often accompanies it.

How Do Dentists Treat Dry Socket?

Dentists treat dry socket by gently flushing the socket to remove debris, then packing it with a medicated dressing that covers the exposed bone and relieves pain, often within minutes. The dressing is usually changed every one to three days until the tissue begins to close, and treatment is straightforward once a patient comes in. Most people feel dramatically better after the first visit.

What Does a Normal Healing Socket Look Like After a Tooth Extraction?

A normal healing socket looks like a dark red or brownish clot sitting just below the gum line in the first two days, turning into whitish or yellowish granulation tissue across days three through seven, and then gradually filling in with pink gum tissue over the following weeks. White tissue at the socket surface is usually normal granulation tissue rather than exposed bone. The gap itself closes over about four weeks at the surface, while the bone underneath continues rebuilding for months.

Is Swelling Normal After a Tooth Extraction?

Swelling is normal after a tooth extraction, typically appearing within a few hours, peaking at 48 to 72 hours, and then easing steadily through the rest of the first week. Cold compresses applied in 20 minute intervals during the first day limit how far it goes. Swelling that increases after day three, or that arrives with fever, is a reason to call rather than wait.

What Should You Do If Food Gets Stuck in the Socket?

If food gets stuck in the socket, rinse gently with warm salt water and let the water fall from your mouth rather than spitting, and never pick at the site with a toothpick, finger, tongue, or floss. Picking at the site risks pulling the clot out along with the food particle. A small amount of trapped food usually clears on its own with a few gentle rinses, and anything stubborn is better removed by your dentist.

Can You Eat Before the Numbness Wears Off?

You should not eat before the numbness wears off after a tooth extraction, because a numb cheek, lip, or tongue cannot feel a bite and self-inflicted bite injuries are common in that window. Numbness from local anesthesia usually fades within two to four hours. Cool liquids are fine during the wait, taken from a cup. Staying current with routine checkups is also the surest way to reduce how often extractions become necessary at all.

The Bottom Line

Eating well after a tooth extraction comes down to three ideas. Choose foods by texture and temperature rather than by any fixed list, protect the blood clot from suction, heat, and sharp fragments for the first week, and give the socket real nutrition through protein and vitamin C instead of coasting on pudding. Follow the phases, move from spoonable to fork-soft to regular as comfort allows, and let tenderness rather than the calendar decide when to test something firmer.

Most recoveries go quietly when those rules hold. If pain grows instead of fading, if swelling turns the wrong direction after day three, or if something at the site simply feels wrong, we would rather hear from you early than late. We see patients from across Cherry Hill for exactly this kind of question, and a quick look usually settles it. You can book with Omega Dental Arts or call us at (856) 662-1155.

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