When you're healed: Everyone heals at a different pace, so an exact time cannot be given. Usually a couple of days should be fine, but for some people it takes more than a week.
Answered 7/3/2020
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Whenever you want to: Patients think they cannot eat after having wisdom teeth removed, and some do not because they are still numb or afraid of possible pain. Many of my patients have told me that after having four wisdom teeth removed, they stopped enroute home to eat a hamburger or other fast food and that surgery never affected their diet. Start out with soft foods and advance to solid food as you can tolerate.
Answered 8/15/2015
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24/48 hours: You can eat solid food right after or when your numbness goes away. But in general we avoid rough and grainy foods as it might get wedged in the sockets or pop sutures if you have sutures after extraction.
Answered 12/17/2014
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