Food & drink
Drill Dental’s short-term food guide
We recommend avoiding strongly colored foods and drinks for about 48 hours. Follow the timing your team gives you for your whitening product.
Simple choices
- Chicken, turkey, white fish, eggs, plain pasta, or potatoes.
- Banana, peeled apple, cauliflower, plain yogurt, or milk.
- Water for hydration.
Avoid during the recommended period
- Coffee, tea, red wine, dark soda, and tobacco.
- Tomato sauce, curry, soy sauce, berries, and beets.
- Colored mouthwash unless it is part of instructions from your doctor.
Medical emergency? Call 911 for trouble breathing or swallowing, rapidly spreading swelling, fainting, or other life-threatening symptoms. Do not wait for an office reply. Emergency guidance
Your doctor’s instructions take priority. If you had more than one procedure, ask your team which instructions to follow. Contact your office.
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