Before I got braces, I had to have a gum graft on my lower gums because it was too thin there. They lasered off a chunk of the roof of my mouth and sewed it into my gums (like where you would hold chewing tabacky, under my bottom teeth). OUCH. It. hurt. so. bad. And the procedure was the most awful thing… I can’t even type about it. Seriously. And it was right before Halloween and I couldn’t eat any candy. :( I couldnt’ even talk. The stitches were these huge black string things. Some of them wiggled loose, but I wouldn’t pull them out or let my parents do it, so they just dangled there until I saw the surgeon again.
Also, after my c-section, I had stitches, but they took them out in the hospital before I went home. I don’t know what it looked like after- I didn’t look at it for months. I just squirted some water on it in the shower, and that was it. I didn’t want to see because I’m a huge wuss.
I’m gonna go pass out now from reading all these responses.
@jonsblond- OMFG. I’m hoping this baby will come out in pill form, and I’ll be able to put it in a glass of water and it will expand in 3 hours.