Foods to Eat After Surgery

• Yogurt or frozen yogurt
• Ice Cream (no small nuts, candy bits, or hard chunks)
• Mashed Potatoes
• Congee (soupy rice/porridge)
• Soup (Not too hot)
• Apple Sauce
• Soft fruit (canned peaches, ripe avocado, ripe banana)
• Ground Meats
• Blended smoothies (Jamba Juice, Juice it up  - without a straw)
• Noodle meals or macaroni & cheese
• Ensure or Slimfast or other nutrient rich shake
• Scrambled Eggs
• Pudding or custard
• Cottage Cheese
• Jell-O
• Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat

Foods to AVOID After Oral Surgery

• Avoid using straws
• Hard and crunchy food
• Spicy food
• Sticky food (i.e. chewy candy, gum)
• Food with sharp edges ( i.e. tortilla chips, fish bones)
• Acidic foods (i.e. grapefruit juice)

Proper nutrition will allow for optimal healing and recovery.  Once you are tolerating a comfortable soft diet, you may try foods with a harder consistency.  If it hurts to eat the harder food, then transition back to soft foods until comfortable.

• Nothing with sharp edges (tortilla chips, fish bones)

• Nothing too acidic (grapefruit juice)