After treatment

After your treatment

What is normal while it settles, what to avoid, and how recovery usually goes.

Whatever the dentist who treated you told you comes first. They know what they did.

A filling

Decay cut out, and the shape of the tooth rebuilt.

A tooth removed from its socket, under local anaesthetic.

Cleaning the root surfaces below the gum line, usually over several appointments.

The infected pulp taken out of the inside of a tooth, so the tooth can be kept.

A tooth reshaped, and a cover made to replace its whole outer surface.

The injection itself — how long it lasts, and getting through it.

If the appointment itself is the problem

What you can ask for, and how to ask for it — including the signal that stops things, and what to say when you book.