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Jul. 2nd, 2015 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, I took off work to have minor dental surgery. I got a gum graft done.
This is actually the second gum graft I've had - my gums are apparently prone to recession, for no apparent reason. They're honestly kinda cool. I mean, someone took a piece of tissue from part of my mouth, sewed it to another part of my mouth, and now it's just going to grow there, like that's totally normal. That's pretty amazing, really. They're also a little bit hilariously gory, but only because everything is happening in my mouth, which is very close to my eyes. I got intimate close-ups on the suture after it had been pulled through my gums. I can totally see how this would weird a lot of people out and it's not as though it was pleasant to experience (though my mouth is numbed, so it's still better than a regular cleaning), but it was kinda neat. Humanity is pretty ingenious.
There is a too-much-Star-Trek part of me that thinks we ought to have a better solution than literally sewing things together by now, though. Dr McCoy wouldn't have needed me to sit around for an hour with gauze in my mouth afterwards, y'know?
And now I get to just sit around the house for the rest of the day and all of tomorrow. I would not voluntarily have oral surgery, but it does mean that I get a day off without any sort of obligations tacked on to it, and I'm looking forward to just relaxing for a while.
This is actually the second gum graft I've had - my gums are apparently prone to recession, for no apparent reason. They're honestly kinda cool. I mean, someone took a piece of tissue from part of my mouth, sewed it to another part of my mouth, and now it's just going to grow there, like that's totally normal. That's pretty amazing, really. They're also a little bit hilariously gory, but only because everything is happening in my mouth, which is very close to my eyes. I got intimate close-ups on the suture after it had been pulled through my gums. I can totally see how this would weird a lot of people out and it's not as though it was pleasant to experience (though my mouth is numbed, so it's still better than a regular cleaning), but it was kinda neat. Humanity is pretty ingenious.
There is a too-much-Star-Trek part of me that thinks we ought to have a better solution than literally sewing things together by now, though. Dr McCoy wouldn't have needed me to sit around for an hour with gauze in my mouth afterwards, y'know?
And now I get to just sit around the house for the rest of the day and all of tomorrow. I would not voluntarily have oral surgery, but it does mean that I get a day off without any sort of obligations tacked on to it, and I'm looking forward to just relaxing for a while.
