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My wife has had a couple of grafts. Without the guard covering the "donor" tissue site, the pain can be quite excrutiating. One option is to use tissue from a cadaver, instead of your own. Yes, you read that right. It's basically just the structural tissue without the drooly bits. That eliminates dealing with the sensitive donor tissue site on the roof of your mouth, and the associated pain.

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SurfnFish said:
ok...aging causes thinning of the gum tissue around both implants and 'normal' teeth. The thinner the tissue gets the more susceptible it also becomes to bone erosion and a loss of structural support = loss of tooth/implant.
In a typical gum implant procedure:
- the periodontist ( best done by them vs a standard dentist) slices open the base of the gum at the implant site to expose the tooth/implant
-next a fairly deep section of tissue is removed from the roof of the mouth about 1" long by 1/2" wide
-that tissue, the implant, is then stitched into place around the tooth base, with dissolving interior and exterior stitches stitches
-before the procedure begins a mouth guard is created by 'casting' your upper palate where the implant donor is removed from. This mouth guard covers all the upper teeth and the roof of the mouth.
-Because the implant site cannot be stitched closed, it has to heal by filling in which takes a few weeks.
- For the first week to ten days the donor site is highly sensitive, downright burns like hell at first if not protected by the mouth guard. With the mouth guard in place the site is sensitive but doable. Typically the mouth guard is worn full time for the first few days to a week with removal several times a day to clean and let the tissue breathe.
-so diet for the first week is all soft food such as eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt, pasta, soup, protein shakes, etc, with all chewing done by the opposite side of the implant location. After the first week tender cooked fish, beans, chicken, etc can be added.
-The point of all this is to keep the transplant site completely protected from any disturbance while the graft 'takes' and roots in. At first the grafted tissue appears all white and then gradually becomes pink as the graft becomes fully vascular.
-If at the two week exam the periodontist sees normal progress the patient will be cleared to move on to solid foods, while still avoiding chewing any 'hard' foods on the implant side for another two weeks.

Being there is no dental coverage available for those on MediCare that covers gum implants, the procedure cost (this my second) is about 3K a pop.

Hope you find this helpful.
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Thank you for the info! It doesn't sound fun, but I might need it down the road.
 
Yup, Medicare does not cover anything dental. Kaiser would just rather "pull them all". I cannot have teeth pulled since I am on Pradaxa.
Teeth cleaning only.
 
Metal grill brushes be evil! I went thru $350k of surgeries 12, 13 and 14 years ago, with the added treat of arresting during the first peritonitis operation. Other fun things included half a year with a colostomy, 6 weeks of daily IV infusions and loss of about 14 inches of bowel. Please, dump your metal grill brushes and switch to an alternative. One stray bristle can literally kill you.
 
Kilchis said:
Metal grill brushes be evil! I went thru $350k of surgeries 12, 13 and 14 years ago, with the added treat of arresting during the first peritonitis operation. Other fun things included half a year with a colostomy, 6 weeks of daily IV infusions and loss of about 14 inches of bowel. Please, dump your metal grill brushes and switch to an alternative. One stray bristle can literally kill you.
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We ditched the metal brushes years ago. I use a three part system to clean my grill.

1. Grease fire. Just crank it up with the lid closed until the temp gauge pins, then open the lid and stand back until the fire goes out.

2. I have a tool that is a flat metal bar with a handle on one end and a semicircle notch at the other end. I use that to scrape my round grill bars.

3. Hardwood scraper. A flat wooden paddle with a bevel at the end. Used on hot grates, it burns to shape so that wooden fingers fit between the grates.

I hardly ever remove the grates to clean the flavorizer bars or the bottom of the grill.
 
No wire brush used on my grill. Metal scraper only. If you saw my grill, you might not want to eat anything cooked on it. I rely on heat to kill any bacteria. And scrape the tops of the grill bars - the part that food actually touches. The sides and undersides look sorta' gross. Been that way since forever.
 
BriGuy said:
My wife has had a couple of grafts. Without the guard covering the "donor" tissue site, the pain can be quite excrutiating. One option is to use tissue from a cadaver, instead of your own. Yes, you read that right. It's basically just the structural tissue without the drooly bits. That eliminates dealing with the sensitive donor tissue site on the roof of your mouth, and the associated pain.

Now ya know...
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my orthodontist, who uses cadaver grafts for other conditions, will not use cadaver grafts for implant grafts as the tissue lacks the structural integrity of the patients own tissue.
 
Interesting. My wife had one of each, electing the cadaver tissue the last time. It's been holding up well.

I don't think I'll tell her about that. 😉
 
Matt B said:
Yum, I’ve never done it with fresh herbs—more of a dry rub type thing after the marinade/brine. I’m a big fan of brining chicken for the grill (or most anything). It takes time for osmosis to occur and I think basting chicken skin is sort of pointless since the function of skin is to act as a barrier. Plus I really like the subtle taste-o-vinegar from the Cornell recipe.
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Grilled chicken again tonight. I used the Cornell Chicken recipe as an overnight marinade, with a quarter of a jar of Bone Suckin Sauce I had left over mixed in. After getting the chicken on the grill, I boiled the marinade on the side burner for a bit and then basted with it. Pretty tasty!
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Kilchis said:
Metal grill brushes be evil! I went thru $350k of surgeries 12, 13 and 14 years ago, with the added treat of arresting during the first peritonitis operation. Other fun things included half a year with a colostomy, 6 weeks of daily IV infusions and loss of about 14 inches of bowel. Please, dump your metal grill brushes and switch to an alternative. One stray bristle can literally kill you.
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WOW! After reading your post, I dumped my wire grill brush. I guess I'll use @Salmo_g's method.
 
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