<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Background:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Patient’s acceptability of dental implant prostheses may be influenced the fact that a surgical procedure is involved. Adequate relevant information by the dental professionals pre-surgery, is therefore, paramount to alleviating the fear of surgery and contribute positively to patient’s ability to cope with post-surgical experience. This study, therefore, aimed at evaluating </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the postsurgical experience of the dental implant patients. As against what was</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">expected, and relate this with the information given pre surgery. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methodology:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Post treatment self-completed questionnaires were administered to consented </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">patients that had dental implants placed between July 2017 and December 2019. The surgical procedure followed the standard protocol and </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">data related to post-surgical experience were collected one week after the surgery</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">to obtain </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">information on the level of pain/discomfort and amount of swelling experienced f</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ollowing surgery. The effect of the information on coping ability following surgery was also assessed. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> value ≤</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">0.05)</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Twenty-seven patients received 44