Does cold compress OR hot compress just detumescence after plucking a tooth?
After plucking a tooth, the mouth can have some swelling, should cold compress or hot compress at this moment?
Some people will take it for granted that the rapid detumescence, of course, should be hot compress!
But this choice often backfires.
In fact, tooth extraction, like other traumatic operations, will leave small wounds in the alveolar socket, periodontal, there will be bleeding, seepage.
Just one or two days after tooth extraction, the tooth extraction wound belongs to the bleeding and exudation period. At this time, the exudation should be “stopped”, and the local blood supply should be reduced. Naturally, cold compress should be adopted.
3 ~ 4 days after tooth extraction, the wound has been transferred from exudation to repair stage, at this time, should increase the blood supply and improve the metabolic level, “local heating” is naturally beneficial to the recovery of the wound.
Physiotherapy (infrared irradiation, hyperthermia), hot towel hot compress and other methods can be used to strengthen the local blood circulation, improve the metabolic level, so as to promote wound healing.
