Am a diabetes (DM) patient. Am scheduled for dental surgery (tooth removal) in the next 24hours.?

Am afraid the wound may not heal quickly thereby causing more problems than the holes in the tooth. Please advice me.

Am a diabetes (DM) patient. Am scheduled for dental surgery (tooth removal) in the next 24hours.?
If you had visited the dentist once in every six months, your tooth extraction should have been avoided. Please tell the dentist that you are a diabetic patient. They will administer antibiotics soon after tooth extraction.


Please note that most of the persons undergoing Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) are diabetic patients.


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Reply:Call your dentist today, before the procedure and make sure they know you are diabetic. They might put you on antibiotics as a precaution. Do you take insulin?? Because if you do then it might take longer for them to heal, but if you're not on insulin yet they should heal fine.





Now if you can't eat before the surgery, as I'm sure you can't and you do take insulin DO NOT take your insulin if you can't eat. But if the doctor runs an IV continuously see if it just normal saline or saline with dextrose (sugar) in it. If he uses the sugar kind then take your insulin shortly before the procedure because you'll be getting all that sugar. But if it's just the normal saline don't take your insulin. Good Luck





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Reply:Is your blood sugar stable? Are you keeping it as close to normal as possible? Does the dentist know your are diabetic? If the answer is yes, then you need to have it done. Bad teeth can cause as many problems as diabetes if left untreated. If you get an abcess from a bad tooth, the infection can affect your whole body since your immune system is not where it should be. Do it and you should be fine. Keep a positive attitude and quit stressing. It will be okay.
Reply:This is not a good question to ask here.





I had a toe removed due to an infection that would not heal and found out at that time I had DM, but had no complications.





Discuss this with your Doc, you may demand tooth removal in the hospital (surgery) if you feel this is a necessity.





Some dentists are dental surgeons, find out and know ALL your options.





It's YOUR body.


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