Arrange a ride before your visit. An adult must drive you home and stay with you for a few hours afterward.
Before your appointment
- Nothing to eat or drink for 6 hoursbefore your appointment.
- Keep taking your regular medicinesContinue medicines for blood pressure, thyroid and other conditions as your physician recommends. If you have diabetes, ask your physician when to take your medicines. Questions? Please call us before your appointment.
- Take antibiotics first, if you have been told toIf your physician or dentist told you to take an antibiotic before dental care, for example for mitral valve prolapse, a heart murmur, a hip, knee, heart or other prosthesis, or past rheumatic heart disease, take it on the day of your appointment.
- Tell us about aspirin or blood thinnersIf you take aspirin regularly or any blood-thinning medicine, please let us know so we can consult your physician before surgery.
- Consider an anti-inflammatory the day beforeIf you can safely take them, starting ibuprofen or naproxen the day before helps reduce swelling and pain afterward: Advil (ibuprofen 200 mg), 4 tablets every 6 hours, or Aleve (naproxen 220 mg), 2 tablets every 12 hours. Stop 6 hours before your appointment, when you also stop eating and drinking.
- Wear comfortable clothes with short sleevesso we can place your IV and blood pressure monitor easily.
We look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions, call 801-278-3636.