When should you start eating solids after a tooth extraction?

A good rule to: Follow for the first week - anything that you can very easily separate with a fork only, you can eat. This opens the door to a variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner foods. Sutures present -soft only. No sutures placed - then whatever you can tolerate comfort-wise.

When comfortable: Generally you can eat solids when your body and pain level permit it. You may want to avoid certain foods like popcorn as that tends to get stuck in the sockets like a magnet. Otherwise eat what you can an areas other than the actual extraction sockets.