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Wellness Wednesday for October 22, 2025

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Due to years of accumulated physical trauma, I have some teeth on one side that are in rough shape, and my dentist has determined that one of them needs to come out and get replaced by an implant.

Does anyone have any recovery tips? I'm trying to maximize my rate of healing and bone mass retention. The dentist will be doing a bone graft after the extraction.

I've collected the following recommendations so far:

  • Stay hydrated
  • No aspirin for at least three days.
  • No straws for two weeks.
  • No carbonated beverages for two weeks.
  • No lifting or running for at least three days.
  • Increase calcium intake.
  • Increase magnesium intake.
  • Increase vitamin c intake.
  • Increase protein (specifically collagen) intake.
  • Get a lot of sleep.
  • No coke or Pepsi for eight weeks, since phosphoric acid can mess with calcium absorption.

Any other suggestions?

I mean I would just suggest giving up sugary beverages forever.

I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, and I try to keep my sugar intake under 20g/day.

A diet coke when I'm playing a gig is necessary, or people will try to buy me booze.

Instead of Diet Coke you might try substituting sparkling water, soda water or tonic water.

Tonic water usually has lots of sugar.

Wait really??? What!

Tonic water is a soda. Soda water is not.

This apparently makes sense. Tonic water has a bunch of additives in it, most notably quinine, but there's also a bunch of sugar and other chemicals in it. Gin and tonic life.

It's always best to check the can nutritional data. Many drinks that I previously assumed to be relatively less sweet still revealed similar amounts of sugar to Coke. Recommendations to stick to aqua cola: after enough time, you acquire the ability to tell apart different brands/provenances of water and it also helps to reset your palate from the bombing it's regularly taking with large amounts of sugar and salt. And sometimes you just get lucky and live somewhere the tap water is safe and delicious.

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