What can you expect after dental implant surgery?

No matter if you have dental implant surgery in one or many stages, you will likely have some discomfort as you would with any type of surgery. You may experience problems such as a little bleeding, pain at implant area, swelling of your gums and facial area, and bruising of skin and gums. If these problems really bother you are get worse after surgery, get in touch with your implant surgeon so that pain medications or antibiotics can be prescribed.

Following surgery, you will likely need to eat soft foods for about a week. In regard to stitches, the dissolving type is often employed, otherwise the doctor will remove them in 7-10 day's time.