What to do if your wisdom teeth are swollen for a few days after extraction

Wisdom teeth after extraction swollen a few days can be combined with the severity of the swelling, through the local ice packs, oral anti-inflammatory mouthwash and take antibiotics and other methods to improve.
1. Ice: If the local swelling is not particularly serious, you can prepare a clean towel, wrapped in a few pieces of ice or ice packs, for the local ice, can promote local capillary contraction, so that the capillary permeability is reduced, so as to relieve the local swelling.
2. Mouth anti-inflammatory mouthwash: you can also mouth chlorhexidine gargle or saline, can achieve the effect of anti-inflammatory, can alleviate the local swelling, but also can be cleaned off the food debris, reduce the stimulation of the wound.
3. Take antibiotics: if more serious, through the above methods of treatment, but also need to take oral metronidazole, cephalosporin and other drugs treatment.
Through the above methods, if you can not improve, but also need to do further examination of the hospital, for the cause of the treatment, the use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions.