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After dental implant surgery, there are specific instructions your dentist might have given to you for a fast recovery and avoid complications. Having a dentist trained in tooth implant surgery will help you not only during the procedure, but will also help you after the dental implant surgery is done. One specific instruction might have been to avoid drinking alcohol. Let’s find out the effect of drinking alcohol after dental implant surgery.

Alcohol reduces healing 

After the implant surgery, our body needs time to repair the damaged tissue and to build up the new bone that was damaged during the implant surgery procedure. Drinking alcohol will interfere with our body’s ability to produce a protein that is important in healing and also dissolves the blood clot. This will trigger bleeding in the mouth.

Alcohol increases pain 

Alcohol dilates blood vessel which in turn will make it more sensitive. This sensitivity will eventually increase pain. The best way is to drink normal water instead of alcohol.

Alcohol causes dry mouth 

Drinking alcohol can dehydrate our body which is totally opposite of drinking water. This will make the tissue in our mouth to dry out and the recovery will be delayed. This can be very painful in time of healing. Try drinking more water to keep your mouth hydrated.

Alcohol can cause Avascular Necrosis

Avascular Necrosis or also known as AVN is an unusual complication in which the blood vessel that transport nutrient to the jaw bone becomes blocked, causing the bone to die. Drinking alcohol increases this effect as it ultimately increases the fat in the blood. Although AVN is rare, there was a case in 2011, where the patient drinks alcohol one day after the surgery and get AVN complication.

Alcohol has a bad effect in the long term

Alcohol has a long-time effect in your implant surgery as it will interfere with blood supply which can cause the dental implant to fail. The possibility of having AVN is also very big.

Alcohol has a very bad effect on our tooth implant. So avoid alcohol after dental implant surgery and drink more water.