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Wanted to know if i can use hydrogen peroxide after tooth extraction?
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H202: You can use it but a better choice is very warm water with a little table salt in it peroxide on an open wound can burn the healing tissues go with the hot saline 4x a day and be safer.
Answered 4/16/2014
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