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Old 11-23-2006, 02:08 PM   #332 (permalink)
Lucifer
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Okay, here's a weird one for you.
My gums are receding away from my jawbone. Meaning, that in the back of my mouth, just behind my last molar, my jawbone is protruding into my mouth through the gums.I can actually reach in and touch bone. Needless to say, it's kind of painful. I visited my dentist two weeks ago and he cut the gum open and filed the bone down with his drill so that the gum would close over it, but he wasn't able to put a stitch into it. Now it has opened back up and the bone is sticking out once again. I travel a lot, and my company has arranged for me to see another dentist in a few days. Do you think putting a stitch into the gum will help keep it closed?
My dentist deduces that this whole thing was caused by a bone chip that came through the gum, and the gum pulled back from it, and then just kept on going after the chip fell out. But my last major operation was wisdom teeth about 20 years ago. Does this sound plausible?
Do you think that this is the start of an endlessly recurring thing, that every couple of weeks, I'm going to have to go the dentist to have him file my jawbone down?
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