Maybe painless stitch removal

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Jane,

How about telling them you had pain the last time, and asking them

to use some numbing stuff? I'm not thinking injections here... Just

some of the stuff my regular dentist uses to numb the area before he

does the novocaine injections. He does it (or has his assistant do

it) with Q-tips, which sit there for a few minutes. (Yep. All my

docs know I'm a real baby.) The taste is nasty, but they do the

trick.

Perhaps you could even do it yourself with ora-jel, but don't try

that without your docs' permission first...

Will I make you hate me if I tell you I was never even aware of my

few stitches? -- at least until I started chomping on the scar

tissue. Then I was really aware of where he'd done his snipping and

slicing.

C.

>

> Well Cammie,

>

> You are right about the stitches. Visit before last the resident

> snipped about three knots from the stitches above my upper lip.

That

> was the horrid experience when I nearly puked. But it was worth

it

> because since that area hasn't given me trouble. However, I have

> stitches from the right cheek all the way to my left cheek around

the

> gum area. Each visit has been painful so I have developed a

fear.

> And I was too afraid to get them snipped plain and simple. Part

of

> me wishes I would have but then again I don't know how much mouth

> pain I can take?

>

> Jane