Denture Adventure, Part 8

It's Friday, now one solid week since my Dental Armageddon. Luckily, my mouth isn't quite so painful today as it has been the past couple days. It's odd how the pain comes and goes.

Since I was told to wear the dentures as much as possible so my healing mouth retains its shape, I forced myself to put them in this morning. That involved about five minutes of easing them in over aching gums, canker sores, and healing incisions around my lips from the frenulectomy. I had to use our little neck massager to vibrate the sensation out of my face as the denture settled in. Once firmly in place with all the air suctioned out, I don't feel quite so bad. It's convincing the canker sores to accept something hard pressed against them... that is the challenging part, and it takes a few minutes.

The very last stitch came out. It had been bugging me for a while, located right where the gum and upper lip meet. I dared not pull it out earlier since the frenulectomy was the most painful part of this whole ordeal, but it was poking me too much, a broken fragment of the stitch threaded through my lip. I noticed this afternoon that the skin was growing over the knotted end, so it needed to go. I sterilized some tweezers, took hold of the knot, and pulled that last fragment out. That was painful, and once again I have to do all this without Oral Gel since I'm allergic to anything that numbs. That's where whiskey comes in handy. LOL!

I went a lot easier on eating today. My adventure with fixing pasta and trying to chew only proved that I'm not ready for that yet. Back to yogurt and soup.