Receding Gum Report

I had surgery on my gums today.

For a few years now, my dentist has been concerned with my receding gums. I have lots of threes verging on fours and a couple of fives. Fives are bad. Even worse, a nine is really bad.

Well, I have a nine mm pocket on the inside of my #28 tooth.

So Dr. Gaunt referred me to Dr. Steve, who is a periodontal surgeon. I went in about three weeks ago and he determined I needed the surgery to rebuild the bone and gum.

So Susan drove me to Dr. Steve's office this morning at 7AM. They got me into the room and on the chair pretty quickly. The nurse gave me a cocktail to drink that had Valium and something else in it. It relaxed me pretty fast. I was never out but I was definitely in twilight.

When it was over, I lamely piled into a wheel chair. My legs were very heavy. I was outta there and back home by 9:00. Then I slept for most of the afternoon.

I experienced very little pain. The worst part of the whole thing is that they packed some dental putty on my teeth and it feels like I have a big plug of chewing tobacco in there. 

I have to go back in a week and have the stitches removed and hopefully the plug of chaw.