After a tooth extraction are you supposed to gargle with table salt or Epsom salt?

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It is a known fact that (table) salt is healing to wounds. Therefore, it is a good idea to *rinse* your mouth out with salt water. When doing so, you do not want to swish the salt water around to abruptly because it can actually disturb the healing process. When your gums start to heal, it will form a scab just as your normal skin does while healing. If you disrupt this clotting/healing process with vigorious swishing with liquids, the sucking action when drinking through a straw, or by hitting the area with solid foods, you can delay the healing process. You can actually get something called "Dry Sockets" if you disrupt the healing scab which leaves the bone & nerves exposed to the harsh enviornment of the oral cavity.

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table salt and warm water

i'm sure it is table- why didn't you ask the dentist?

TABLE SALT>.....NO TO EPSON SALT

Sac Salt!

warm salt water. table salt!

1/4 tsp table salt per 1/2 cup water

table salt and warm water.

Table salt and warm water.

Epsom salt is for soaking your tired muscles in the tub.Use salt water but don't get the water too hot or it will draw the blood out more.

table salt but your suppose to wait 1 1/2 days cause you don't want to disturb the scab and create a dry socket (lots of pain )

alittle warm water and TABLE salt. Didnt you pay attention at the dentist! goodness...lol...j/k

neither -nor! The salty solution might prevent the wound from healing. Gargle with luke warm tea made from dried sage leaves ( you get them either in a pharmacy or health store), it helps to accelerate healing and to clean the wound.

As other people have said, table salt. Epsom salt is a powerful laxative!

http://health.yahoo.com/topic/oralcare/treatment/article/healthwise/hw172374

let it clot 1st no rinsing or brushing or hot soups or hot foods or chewy foods on day of extraction then next day slowly water in mouth to lightly swish with salt water lightly! no brushing.. if it kills u to the bonein a few days then u got dry socket infection and clot was lost out

Table salt only. Epsom salt should NOT be ingested.

i just got my wisdom teeth pulled out and my dentist told me not to gargle at all, and not to spit.

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