Dental implants are a very common treatment in modern cosmetic dentistry. It is the best practical solution to lost teeth. The clinical procedure is invasive and involves surgical drilling of a metal post into your jawbone. This post acts like the roots of your natural tooth. Implants specialist in London explains that the post is made from biocompatible metals like titanium. Thus, it fuses with your gum tissues and the surrounding bones over the course of time.

On the other hand, London’s popular Prosthodontics Specialist Dr. Siavash Mirfendereski suggests that dental implants surgery requires some restrictions in your normal diet. You’ve to be on a soft diet for few days, meaning that you have to leave behind your normal diet.

It is important to first discuss why the detour from your regular foods and drinks is necessary. Restriction on your diet is imposed to facilitate a faster recovery. Any kind of food and drink that may re-open your surgical wound resulting from implants surgery is to be avoided for obvious reasons. If the wound opens up, you are the one to suffer from pain, bleeding and other inconveniences. In worst cases it may also lead you to a nasty infection.

Your body requires high dosages of nutrition after such a surgery for faster healing. Thus, the expert at the Wimpole Dental Office suggests you an ideal diet plan while recuperating during the post-surgical phase.

Immediately after surgery for about 6 hours till the numbness wears off

• Immediately after surgery and till the numbness resulting from the anaesthesia wears off, you should be on a soft diet. This may include mashed potatoes, smoothies, yogurt, milkshake, ice cream, pudding, applesauce and such other foods that are high in calories.
• Everything that you eat at this stage must be cold or at room temperature.
• Avoid smoking, spitting, using straws and fizzy drinks.
• Do not consume any nuts, chips, seeds and popcorns for the time being.

After the numbness wears out, which is usually 6 hours post-surgery

• At this stage, you can eat soft foods like pasta, cheese, macaroni, eggs, cooked or boiled vegetables, pancakes and such other foods.

Approximate number of days when you’ve to be on soft diet

It is important to drink plenty of water at this stage to keep your body hydrated. Your diet of soft foods is likely to continue for 10 to 15 days following the invasive clinical procedure. The wound has to be healed enough so that you feel no pain or inconvenience at the treated area while enjoying your favourite dishes or drinks.  Your surgeon will tell you when you are ready to start eating whatever you desire.