On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:57:16 AM UTC-10, Michael Trew wrote:
> Good thing most of the posts here are John Kuthe-centric. I was afraid
> that you guys would be making me hungry... I just had all 4 wisdom teeth
> pulled (ouch), and have eaten noting but jello for over 36 hours. Guess
> I'm going to lose a few pounds though, lol. Will be working on some
> "soft food recipes" here shortly.

My old dentist died so I went to my wife's dentist. He extracted 4 teeth. I sure hope he knows what he's doing. The old school method is to sew up your gums where the teeth were but my dentist just lets the gums flap in the wind. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.

dsi1 wrote:
> My old dentist died so I went to my wife's dentist.
> He extracted 4 teeth. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
> The old school method is to sew up your gums where the teeth
> were but my dentist just lets the gums flap in the wind.
> I sure hope he knows what he's doing.

For what it's worth, I've had 3 wisdom teeth and one very back molar
extracted in my life. Never any stitches and the gums healed fine.

On 5/2/2021 9:16 AM, Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>> My old dentist died so I went to my wife's dentist.
>> He extracted 4 teeth. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
>> The old school method is to sew up your gums where the teeth
>> were but my dentist just lets the gums flap in the wind.
>> I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
>
> For what it's worth, I've had 3 wisdom teeth and one very back molar
> extracted in my life. Never any stitches and the gums healed fine.
>
>
>
I had one back molar extracted and no stitches were involved.

Jill

On Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 3:16:16 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
> > My old dentist died so I went to my wife's dentist.
> > He extracted 4 teeth. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
> > The old school method is to sew up your gums where the teeth
> > were but my dentist just lets the gums flap in the wind.
> > I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
> For what it's worth, I've had 3 wisdom teeth and one very back molar
> extracted in my life. Never any stitches and the gums healed fine.

When I had my wisdom teeth removed in the early 70's, I did have stitches. I remember them poking my tongue. Times have changed, it seems. Good.

On 5/2/2021 9:16 AM, Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>> My old dentist died so I went to my wife's dentist.
>> He extracted 4 teeth. I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
>> The old school method is to sew up your gums where the teeth
>> were but my dentist just lets the gums flap in the wind.
>> I sure hope he knows what he's doing.
>
> For what it's worth, I've had 3 wisdom teeth and one very back molar
> extracted in my life. Never any stitches and the gums healed fine.
>
>
>

My dentist stitched my bottom gums... those teeth were the impacted
ones. The top ones didn't need stitches. The bottom stitches are the
type that dissolve, and it seems that they already have.