This post is not for the faint of heart…
Warning… seriously not for the faint of heart.
As I have mentioned before, the medical processing with Peace Corps is VERY throughout. For example, they required I get my wisdom teeth evaluated. Sure enough they were evaluated and promptly removed. This means my oral surgeon had to drill into my upper jaw bones, crack my two top wisdom teeth in order to remove them through the holes in my bone. The bottom two were merely dug out the good ol’ fashioned way, leaving me with holes in the back of my mouth that I’ve been flushing out with water after each meal for almost a month. Secondly, Peace Corps asked me to have a gingival graft done to my lower front two teeth due to a receding gum line. My Periodontist explained this can be a hereditary condition, but also could be caused from having braces and not enough gum tissue to go around as my teeth moved. So here I am with healing holes in the back of my mouth and I am going in to get the rest of my mouth that hasn’t hurt yet, to get worked on. The gum graft went like this… cutting of the frenum (the tiny piece of tissue that connects your lower lip to your gums) and cutting of the gum I have left down there, shaving off a section of tissue from the roof of my mouth, then suturing the roof gum onto the area that is missing gum tissue on my front teeth. I was pretty well numbed up and there was nothing to hear during the procedure, but the worst part was tasting and feeling the blood drip down the back of my throat. Now back to the soft, liquid diet of yogurt and ice cream. At least my teeth are in tip top shape.
My gums before
This is the roof of my mouth that sacrificed the skin for the graft
This is my mouth after leaving the dentist
Three weeks later and i'm as good as new!
