Wasn't flaming you 24601. I hadn't read you profile and did not know you were a medic. Wouldn't have called you a wanna-be doc. I would have changed that to calling you a CRAZY FRIGGIN MEDIC!! LOL :p I owe you a beer... or is it wine my lady?


BTW- you were probably not picking at a piece of necrotic tissue... it was probably the blood clot that had hardened on the top edge exposed in your mouth. If you had gotten it out to soon, you would have experienced the great wonder of PAIN called a dry socket. OUCH

You must practice dentistry for the military.

I went back for the one week appointment, he removed all of the sutures from three of the sockets, left one or two in the last one.

I noticed the inflammation, then saw the black thread with a mirror. Thought about removing them myself, and decided that I could make things worse by messing with them myself.

He seemed pretty unconcerned about his error when I came back in a couple of weeks later for him to fix it.

Where are the ambulance chasers when you need one?

TR

TskTskTsk

Here I go and actually fill out my profile and you didn't even look LOL

Not sure what I picked at, but it tasted and made my mouth smell horriable.

THat 'd be a Jagerbomb please.

NDD- should I be looking for a new thread in the Briefing thread after that comment. Don't tell me that didn't spur some sort of memories. LOL

LOL

the next question is were they soft like thread or stiffer and plastic like....


soft/threadlike is silk... they will abscess
stiffer/plastic is nylon...less chance of a problem

good luck... where were the stitches (or I guess where are they remaining)?

I have em in my leg, it is thread like, black stiches.

if it is, in fact, silk it is a braided suture which makes bacterial infection more likely than if it had been nylon. Bacteria get into the little interstices as the suture is actually made up of many many different threads.

You will probably wind up with a small abscess or you may notice a suture reaction with a "pimple' like looking area that drains.

If you are lucky even though it sounds like silk it will really have been nylon as its rare anyone closes anything with silk anymore because it causes much more of a reaction.

doc t.

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You like that one, you should have seen mom's face when we came home and found him removing old shrapnel from his leg at the kitchen table!:rolleyes:

Reporting as ordered, SIR! LOL

Four days later? Must have been busy with a product liability case against a BIG company.

I already got counsel now.

TR

Damn!