birth control and oral surgery
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birth control and oral surgery
| Tue, 04-20-2004 - 1:11am |
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I've been on the pill (Ortho Tri-Cyclen) for 1 year and 8 months now, and I have to have my wisdom teeth pulled. Why do they ask if you're on birth control or not? I had surgery once before, and I had my gallbladder removed, and I was fine. The gallbladder surgery was last summer. Help!!! Should I be worried about this?
thanks a million

That would be a great question to ask your oral surgeon. It might have to do with any meds s/he might use or prescribe, if you were given an Rx for an antibiotic for example. If that was the case then you should use back-up while you are taking your meds and for at least 7 days afterward. If I were you, I’d ask my doc why the question about BC. I don’t think you need to be worried, just be prepared. I hope your surgery goes well.
Good luck
Jill
As well, you will probably be given pain medicine afterwards, I'm not sure if they can effect the effectiveness of the pill but that you should ask about as well. I'm sure Tylonal or Advil won't have an effect on your pill, yet when I had mine out I was given Demoral, so all pain meds may have different side effects.
One last point, beware of becoming sick. I'm just going by my personal experience and I'm sure not everyone goes through this when they get their wisdom teeth out but I was very VERY sick for about 3 days afterwards (severally dehydrated from throwing up and not being able to eat-I swollowed too much blood during the surgery so it all had to come back up somehow!! sorry, TMI). So if you are sick like I was, also remember to use backup probably for the rest of your cycle.
Good luck,
~Brookie