Oral Surgery

I've been having a chronic reoccurring inflammation of my bottom gums where my wisdom teeth would be if they hadn't been excised when I was sixteen. Three or four days ago I started to get a sore throat. Then on Monday, after a sleepless night, my lower left gum was so sore I couldn’t eat my second breakfast burrito.

My dentist was able to work me in that day. He immediately sent me to a periodontist and now I am scheduled to have a somewhat emergent “wedge” procedure done on both gums tomorrow at 10:00 AM. The periodontist also saw something on the x-ray that might have indicated a bone related problem in the left gum as well, but she won’t know for sure or how to address it until she has filleted my gums.

I’m told I’ll be pretty sore for a week or so. I’ll try to keep up on my blog, but I imagine I’ll be on some good medicine for an undetermined period of time. I am allergic to pain, so I believe strongly in pain management.