My husband had to get some perodontal scraping thing done, it sounded very unpleasant.

This is what I had done. Nope. Not pleasant. At. All.

I have never had the deep scraping thing done, because I'm already pretty good with the floss and my little rubber tipped pick, thing. However, I have had the experience of having the surgeon patch the thin part of my gums with skin from the roof of my mouth. Ow.

I have had the experience of having the surgeon patch the thin part of my gums with skin from the roof of my mouth. Ow

It's painful? My MiL was thinking of getting that done for cosmetic reasons - her dentist doesn't think she needs to do it.

However, I have had the experience of having the surgeon patch the thin part of my gums with skin from the roof of my mouth. Ow.

Ha! I had this done, too! Where you lip attaches to the gums right in the front--that part was literally wearing away my gums so I had to have the connecting tissue cut and a graft on the gums after I got my braces off. If I hadn't had it done, my front teeth would have become unstable.

Is it any wonder why I hate dentists so much???

I don't have a Sonicare brush, but I have one of the the battery operated toothbushes you can get at the grocery store. I *had* a Braun but somehow I managed to break it. I bought one of those Hummingbird pic things, a while back but I can't use it until my gums get better.

I'm trying to ween myself off sodas, I know they have to be rough on my gums and teeth.

-t I just figured out where your tagline comes from!

It's painful?

The dentist told me it would be like having a very bad burn on the roof of my mouth (the part where they attached the gum really didn't hurt me at all), and that was a pretty good description. A very sore spot in an inconvienent place. Kept me off solid food for a few days in the beginning and then again when the plaster fell off.

Hmm. I'll pass that along to the MiL next time the subject comes up.

Owowow. I was supposed to have the grafting thing done, but the oral surgeon decided at the last minute that my gums didn't look desperately bad just yet, so he just whittled away the frenulum, packed my lower lip with gauze and a seriously nasty gummy waxy dressing, and sent me home. If my gums still look crappy in a year I'll have to do it, but the surgeon thinks that just cutting away the connecting tissue may do the trick.

He also used the teeniest possible needle to numb me up beforehand, stopped whenever I asked him to, and let me play my own music during the whittling.

I sincerely love the dental school faculty here. They are maxillofacial ROCK GODS.

Praying to the gummy gods that my love of waterpik keeps my gums happy.