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aadak18 Regular Member
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:58 pm Post subject: Gum surgery |
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Hi all. I'm facing some surgery to graft tissue onto my recessed gum. Nothing major, but the doctor is saying I will need to take some time off. Does anyone have experience with this? |
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nieuwguyski Heavyweight Member
Joined: 06 Feb 2002 Posts: 2344 Location: Santa Cruz County, CA
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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I had two major gum grafts done about 10 years ago. I mentioned being a trumpet player to the periodontist and his recommendation was to take a three weeks to a month off and then ease back into playing. I've always been a bad patient -- I was playing low long tones after two weeks, ramped it up over the following two weeks, and was back to a full schedule of rehearsing and gigging after a month. Of course, I was back around four months later to have the other side done, so I had to go through the recovery a second time.
As I mentioned, I had pretty significant grafts done, and the donor tissue was "harvested" from my upper palette. The gouges in the upper palette tissue hurt a whole lot more than the actual graft, and I only started on the long tones when the roof of my mouth allowed it -- by which time the grafts were healing pretty well. _________________ J. Notso Nieuwguyski |
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mark61 Veteran Member
Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 173
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:43 am Post subject: |
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Same , I was blowing long tones within a week c below up to c on the staff.
After that 2 weeks close to normal, mouth is vascular and has good blood supply. You will heal quick. Just don't push it.
Best
Mark
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cheiden Heavyweight Member
Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 8911 Location: Orange County, CA
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Earlier this year I had a top front tooth extracted, a significant amount of bone grafting and a big swatch of the roof of my mouth grafted to where the extracted tooth was. It was quite a while until the roof of the mouth stopped feeling really out of sorts. It was a few months more until the site where the tissue was grafted stopped feeling like a piece of liver was stuck there.
My procedure was pretty major and I can't say if the treatment for receded gums would be as rough. FWIW my periodontist claims to have all sort of high tech solutions that supposedly fix receded gums with less trauma and quicker healing. Here's a link to one of their solutions.
https://ocperioandimplants.com/chao-pinhole-surgical-technique-receding-gums/
There's a lot more to tell if you're interested.
Two weeks back I was cleared to try playing again. Efforts with the missing tooth were not encouraging. No fault of the guns and bone which feel fine. This weekend I expect to try playing on Invisaligns. _________________ "I'm an engineer, which means I think I know a whole bunch of stuff I really don't."
Charles J Heiden/So Cal
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aadak18 Regular Member
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks everyone! |
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mark61 Veteran Member
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Good information. Thanks for sharing. i had the grafting. Was a bit ouchy for a few days. Think more so on the roof of my mouth where they took the tissue.
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