Wisdom teeth op - Suggest what food to buy for adult DC to eat afterwards

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Adult DC (23) getting two lower wisdom teeth out on Monday and is staying with us for a few days. Recommend me the best 'soft' foods to buy for next few days, please. Going to supermarket over weekend.

Apple purée/compote. That’s what my DDs wanted when they had braces.

I think it all depends on whether it's a dentist extraction with local anaesthetic or hospital job- general anaesthetic and they have dig around for them

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DH had this last year, was told no straws due to the suction risking removing the blood clot.
He had dry socket which was very painful.

He ate jelly, soup, mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, protein frozen smoothies.

@TenseTessa Gawd, both teeth are 'fully visible' so fortunately no digging. I just was wondering whether the bottom two were more likely to cause more swelling than the top two but I guess every situation will be different.
Thanks to the person upthread who suggested the ice packs. I'm going to get some of those for the car journey back (1 hr)
So far on the list:
eggs, yoghurt, cold pots of desserts, baby pasta, soft white loaf, veg for a cream of carrot style soup, potatoes for mash, fruit for smoothie, creme fraiche, liquid paracetemol

Also a Q to everyone who can remember the experience, do you think sushi would be ok? There is a good sushi counter at our local Sainsburys...I could just nip out every mornings and avoid the seaweed wrapped ones

Chocolate ice cream

No sushi. You want stuff that goes straight down no chewing.

Two big bags of frozen peas to use as ice packs ( wrap in tea towel). Bags of peas mould to the shape of your face.
The swelling is due to the anatomy of the face. Wisdom teeth are in a different section of the jaw and drain backwards causing swelling in joint and neck.
Using cold compress helps reduce the swelling.
As for food anything that doesn’t need chewing.
After 24hrs they will advise hot salt water mouthwashes or some sort of antibacterial mouth wash.Make he does them as instructed BUT don’t rinsed vigorously, just hold the mouthwash in the area for 1min then repeat. Vigorous rinsing early on can dislodge the clot.

no to sushi as rice grains would go in the gaps possibly
I had all 4 dug out and stitched as impacted as an adult.
I had a lovely red tommy tippee cup lol with a beaker lid
it wasnt nice

DD & I have both had wisdom teeth removed. The dentist told us not to eat anything hard, or anything small that might get stuck in the socket. We had warm custard, jelly, very soft scrambled egg and smooth soup. The dentist advised against small pasta, rice & Cous Cous. Neither of us had problems opening our jaws wide enough to get a spoon in!

I remember my mum just liquidising normal food and loosening it with gravy, extra sauce or whatever…this was in 1980s…I just ate smooth baby food but was at least a balanced meal
icecream and really cold stuff hurt at first, but then was nice
don’t include anything with small bits that could remotely get stuck in teeth
don’t include any sweet stuff that you’d need to suck on-I remember brushing teeth was bad and I used mouth wash only for first x days

in those days milk puds were still trendish - mum made egg custards, blancmange, and even instant whip 😱🙄, those worked well as a bit of comfort food.

avoid them watching comedy - I made that mistake …ooowwwwww

have to say I’m 60 now, I have had 10 OPs on all sorts of things, kidney stones, 2 labours, but the pain of that op sticks with me even after all this time. Main thing is pain killers frankly .

fuck no😱why would you even think that 🤯small grains, seaweed and fish you need to bite through?

Fgs, it’s not difficult, don’t buy special food …just liquidise normal meals and add a bit more liquid as I said above. People are making heavy weather of this. Liquidising a whole balanced meal means, like a baby weening, you still get a balanced level of nutrients. Ok, it’s not brilliant, but my mum liquidised each food separately so say mashed pots, mashed carrots, creamed brocali, and liquidised stew. Still recognisable as a meal and no major effort or seperate shopping.
yes. Ok, as in previous post. She did make some milk puds as well especially.

Does nobody cook from scratch now? Is this why people are making this more complicated than it needs be?

Pmsl who pissed on your chips !?

Lol @Whiteroomjoy Everything's from scratch here but it would just look like green gloop.
Now will just channel smooth.

Thin food helped a lot when I had a wisdom tooth extraction! I mean food that you can thinly slice and slide into your mouth without having to open it wide (it was opening my mouth rather than chewing which was painful).

Soup and smoothies - I just blended up everything until it was smooth, when I had mine out and when dd had h er braces tightened.

Fgs, it’s not difficult, don’t buy special food …just liquidise normal meals and add a bit more liquid as I said above.

Crikey - that sounds absolutely disgusting!

As someone who hasn't been able to chew properly for seven weeks due to lock jaw it is just as disgusting as you'd think it would be!

For some reasons carbs taste really disgusting to me right now so I'd recommend eggs, ice cream and yogurt.

YMMV though I've had wisdom teeth out and have been able to chew after just fine so he might be on with normalish food after a few days.

I had all 4 teeth out and lived on soup, scrambled eggs, mashed veg with gravy and fruit purée (for about 3 weeks, since my mouth wouldn’t open wide enough to get anything bigger than a teaspoon in!)

Aldi do really good protein chocolate mousse, yoghurts and protein pudding type stuff. All totally smooth and v filling

I recommend Ella's baby food sachets or even jars of baby food. I had 2 wisdoms out and could hardly open my mouth. They were great and you can get them on offer.

You don't want to get anything that leaves residue as you can't properly brush the area for a while.

When I had mine out I just ate trifle. I actually lost weight!

Well pissing on chips is one way to make the, mushy and smooth I suppose, but no one tried that with mine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I had two out very recently (not impacted) in a simple extraction with just local anesthetic. I had no pain or swelling

What I did have

• my gums and the tissue were they put the needles was so tender for about 10 days. If I closed my mouth and food was back there, it hurt!
• the first two days my jaw was a little sore from it being at a weird angle during the extraction and I found I was holding it really tightly and needed to remember to relax it
• food getting into the holes was the biggest issue. Eggs went in the holes, any food with small bits when in the holes. I was a bit paranoid about not rinsing too hard at first due to fear of dry socket and I didn't want my gums to heal over top of food so I didn't eat anything really that could go in the holes
• I ate liquid soups cold (with no bits) including thicker box soups, pudding, yogourt, applesauce, pasta with very little sauce, and some hummus for a week. That was it. I did try eggs a couple of times but it took a lotof rinsing to get the holes cleaned out.
• after a week I started eating more soft foods and didn't really chew until 10 days. But ten days 14 days everything healed up and at the two week mark I was pretty much back to a regular diet.