It depends on how big the surgery is. If it’s done in a very straightforward manner, say, you’re just putting in one dental implant on very good bone, then you’d hardly feel anything.
It’s kind of like the side effects you feel after something less than an extraction. Because you’re basically just putting a pin into your bone. You could feel almost like there’s nothing, perhaps just soreness.
But if we were doing a dental implant together with big bone grafts or if it’s more complicated, we have to pull the gums here and there, then it can be quite painful in the sense that it may be swollen for about 2 to 3 days.
You may get bruising, you may have to rest for a week. It depends on how many dental implants go in as well.
So you get one end of the spectrum where you put the implant in and the patient’s shopping at Chanel like one hour after, then you also have the one where you put in 5 implants together with bone grafting and then they have to take rest and cannot wear their denture for maybe 1 or 2 weeks.
The healing time where you feel very uncomfortable with pain and swelling can range from no downtime to a week.
