Tashanicole,

Dentists will suggest to the patient to wait a week before smoking again. They say that with the hope that the person will stop smoking altogether. If you can stop for a week ... why not for a lifetime?

Smoking after a week is not "safe" to do as the wounds are still open deep into the jaw bone. The upper wounds are also open to the sinus membrane. Under ideal circumstances and with someone who does not smoke at all, it takes weeks, sometimes months for the gum tissue to close completely over the wounds and up to one year for the jaw bone to heal completely.

Anytime you start smoking again within the first year of tooth extractions you are jeopardizing the healing. I sincerely urge you to consider this time as an opportunity to quit smoking.

I wish you all the best and hope you have no post op complications.

Bryanna