September 22, 2003

Periodontist

I just had an appointment with the periodontist. Who, if you don't know, is a gum docter. (Gum as in the gums in your mouth.) Anyways, I had to go in the get part of my gum fixed. Last year, I was brushing my teeth way to hard and caused my lower front gum to receede a signifigant amount. Signifigant enough, unfortunately, that it needed to be fixed.

So today I went in to get my gum grafted. The took a tiny section from the roof of my mouth and put it on the gum that had receeded. So it was all cool until they had to put the dressing on the stitches. The dressing looks just like bubble-gum and covers my four front lower teeth entirely. So my solution to this problem is to not open my mouth all week at school. If I'm called on by a teacher, I'll just not open my mouth very wide.

Also, I'm not supposed to eat hot or hard/crunchy type foods for a while. This is particularly annoying beacuse the moment I found out about that, I started craving like HOT chocolate, or a toasted bagel and basically everything I can't have.

So this whole experience serves as a lesson; brush your teeth carefully. Posted by lib at September 22, 2003 04:33 PM

Comments
ouch! poor lib! oh well, im sure the dressing looks really cool, and remember i dont have a tooth!so youre lucky its only temporary, plus you get out of soccer which is fun Posted by: kate on September 22, 2003 06:02 PM
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