Healing takes work from your body. Alcohol can affect blood flow and the immune response, which isn’t exactly what you want around a fresh surgical site. It can also dry out your mouth, and that matters because a dry mouth isn’t great for keeping oral tissues comfortable while they recover.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 The implant site still needs protection, even if your mouth feels fine during normal meals.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 Alcohol can leave your mouth feeling dry, which is hardly helpful when the gum tissue is recovering.<\/p>\r\n
\u2022 If you’re still taking prescribed medication, leave the drinks alone until you’ve checked whether alcohol is safe with it.<\/p>\r\n
If you’re several weeks into healing and your dentist has confirmed that everything looks good, a small amount of alcohol may be acceptable. But don’t treat the calendar as a permission slip. Healing speed varies, and an implant that feels comfortable isn’t automatically fully integrated with the bone.<\/p>\r\n
Your body is already doing the job. Give it fewer things to deal with. Water is boring, sure, but boring works surprisingly well here.<\/p>\r\n
Hold off on alcohol if you still have swelling, bleeding, significant soreness, or an open wound around the implant. The same goes if your dentist has given you specific restrictions or you’re taking medication that shouldn’t be mixed with alcohol.<\/p>\r\n
Why Alcohol Can Get in the Way Healing takes work from your body. Alcohol can affect blood flow and the immune response, which isn’t exactly what you want around a fresh surgical site. It can also dry out your mouth, and that matters because a dry mouth isn’t great for keeping oral tissues comfortable while … Continue reading Can You Drink Alcohol During Healing Dental Implant?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgedentalcosmetic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}