What types of complications are there for diabetics getting wisdom teeth pulled?!

What types of complications are there for diabetics getting wisdom teeth pulled?

Diabetics with Type 1 need to maintain blood sugar levels, if the stress of an oral surgery (i.e. sedated, not being able to eat or drink to maintain certain blood glucose levels), how are these cases handled?

I had to have 4 taken out. First, go to an expert...an oral surgeon, not a regular dentist (if your insurance will coveer it- it should, since you have more risks).... And make sure he schedules you as the 1st patient in the am...that way you can go home and eat lunch on time.

Secondly, I had two teeth on one side taken out one day & after it healed, had the other two removed. This takes care of "not being able to eat normally" afterward .

Stress: The oral surgeon will use gas (knocks you out fast) and injection to numb jaw if you ask him. The actual removal of the teeth takes no time at all. The surgeon said mine were out in 10 minutes- only one was impacted (not a long enough time for my blood sugar to be doing anything wild).

Went home with a numb side, but was able to eat on the other side of my mouth no problem. Sugar was up a little (I had taken my normal NPH insulin but not my Humalog (short acting) because I didn't have breakfast that am.

The biggest complication diabetics face is healing. Even though mucous membranes heal rather fast in the "typical" population, we may heal slower (depending on age, control, and length of time we have had the diabetes).

I had pain in one socket healing (it had been impacted). Went back to the surgeons office and he put a sterile clove (you heard right...a "sterile clove") into the small depression where my tooth had been...and it killed the pain.
(I was amazed).

I was in my 30's and had Type I for 22 years when I had mine out. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't as big a deal as I had thought it would be.