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Re: Wisdom teeth removal, when will I be able to play again?

Author: Shaun L
Date: 2017-06-10 22:40

I had my wisdom teeth removed in March of last year and my largest piece of advice is to not touch your instrument for 6 weeks or more depending on how you feel when you try for the first time. But definitely not within 6 weeks.

Playing will cause some major discomfort if you try too early because of the pressure, but the real risk is Dry Socket. Dry socket will mean having to go into the doc's daily and having the socket pumped full of fluids to hydrate it again so it can continue healing. It is incredibly painful and will absolutely delay your playing significantly longer than the original procedure. My wife played after week 3 and by week 4 she was making daily trips to the oral surgeons office for 2 sockets that had gone dry. Ended up not able to play for another 3 months without significant pain. She faced a pretty long rebuild after that to get back to where she was.

I, on the other hand, didn't play for 2 months and by the time I picked the horn back up I was fine to play my normal practice routine. Just make sure you do everything Doc says to a tee and you likely won't have problems.

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