Comments on: Tale of the Tooth https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tale-of-the-tooth/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tale-of-the-tooth/#comment-3556 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:21:20 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2797#comment-3556 In reply to Pat Bizzell.

The work that periodontists can do is amazing, but it is no fun, at all!

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tale-of-the-tooth/#comment-3548 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:26:38 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2797#comment-3548 A scary photograph to accompany a harrowing account! I had not even thought of your mouth being stretched as a complication of scleroderma. I am so sorry. At least I did not have that to contend with when I had gum surgery a few years ago, but that was plenty unpleasant. The surgeon took divots of tissue from the roof of my mouth to paste on my teeth where the gums had drawn away, and the sites of the divots took much longer to heal than the repaired gums. However, now I do not look “long in the tooth”–for the time being.

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