It is usually recommended to brush your teeth 48 days after tonsil surgery, but try to avoid using toothpaste with irritating ingredients to reduce the discomfort in the tonsil surgery area.
Tonsils are the body’s immune organs. Surgery of the tonsils is usually considered in cases of recurrent tonsil lesions and ineffective conservative treatment. After tonsil surgery, most patients are able to brush their teeth 48 hours after surgery because a pseudomembrane can be formed on the wound in about 48 hours, but if the recovery process is accompanied by infections, bleeding and other abnormalities, the brushing time should be delayed.
If patients brush their teeth too early after surgery, toothpaste containing irritating ingredients may irritate the surgical wounds or affect the normal protective mechanism of the body, and even increase the risk of infection and aggravate the pain in the surgical area, which should be taken seriously.
It is recommended to adjust the mindset after tonsil surgery and pay attention to the gradual introduction of cold liquid diet after 6 hours after surgery, and change to semi-liquid diet after 24 hours after surgery as appropriate. When the patient feels more mucus in the mouth, the patient should also spit out the saliva in the mouth in time and avoid swallowing it, so that it is easy to observe whether there is postoperative bleeding.