Today I’m feeling better, mouthwise, but I got my 2nd Moderna vaccine Wednesday night and I’m not feeling great overall.
I saw the oral surgeon Wednesday afternoon and he told me that all the little sharp things, remaining in my gums, are not bits of teeth, as I thought. They’re actually shards of my jawbone.
In 2 weeks I’ll see him for a smoothing out of my upper + lower jaw, and that will remove the little jaw bone shards I feel. I asked him if he was going to use a Dremel type of tool to get the job done. He laughed and said he’d used that in the tooth removal portion of the process, and this time he would use a tool similar to a nail file.
2 weeks after that, in mid-June, I will be getting my bone grafts, followed by the bite impressions. The implant placement will come next, followed by the denture creation and fitting for my molars.
It’s going to be mid-summer before I have teeth again! I was so hoping I would be finished with a mouth full of teeth before then. He reminded me that if I wanted to get just dentures, I could have that immediately, or if I wanted to only get 2-4 implants, that could be done more quickly, as well.
I asked him if I’d ever be able to bite into a whole apple or eat corn on the cob again. He advised me that those foods aren’t advised, either are raw carrots, nuts or taffy.
