5 days since upper extractions, no pain, no medication, no bleeding. Safe enough to eat solid food with molars?

Five days since extraction of two upper teeth (technically 4 days if the initial extraction doesn’t count as day 1). Cut pain meds by day 2. No ibuprofen. Bleeding has more or less stopped. Dentist already says I can start moving to more solid food.

Would it be safe to start chewing with my molars again? My relatives just so happened to have brought over a lot of food the very weekend I got my teeth extracted and it’s killing me.

Posted Jun 29, 2026, 11:29 PM UTC

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