Dental related question. advice please

[Rick Denney]

Rick,

I don't believe that you got 128 stitches - because when we put them in, we never count them. You put enough in to do the job and I have NEVER seen anyone count them ever.

I'm going on what the doctor told me. When the stitches dissolved and started coming out, I was spitting out semi-dissolved sutures for a week. It was a very long time (months) before the openings in my mouth filled in. I was in the OR for nearly two hours.

Rick "who also didn't count, but who was there" Denney

[Ryan_Beucke]

Even though I'm eating my lunch right now and this topic is making me sick, I'll still reply haha

I got my 4 out near the end of the summer before my Freshman year as a Euph major. I didn't "go under", but they did give me an IV cocktail that made is so I don't remember a thing...and believe when I say that, I would have been the first to freak out while watching my own surgery. I recommend you don't play for a week or two, depending on your recovery. The more pressure you put on the tissue, the more likely it is to not heal. Generally though, you're looking at a couple weeks of not playing, and after the tissue heals, it'll just be a matter of getting back into the groove.