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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the  PP you were referring to OP.

If you use auto graft (i.e. they take skin from your own mouth), I've heard it really is painful (from two people I know who had that procedure).  The pain is where they take the skin to graft.  So, I don't want to dismiss the very real pain that many people have when they do a certain type of gum grafting.

That said, I was very worried for how much pain I would be in having 5 grafting the first time... and I was very pleasantly surprised that I didn't need any pain meds when I woke up the next morning!  (I had taken the ibuprofen and tylenol as instructed after the surgery and before bed).

The same was true after my second surgery with five teeth grafted.  The difference between my surgery and the two people I know who had a lot of pain with their single-tooth grafting experience is that my periodontist used allograft and theirs did not.

Not all gum graft experiences are the same because of the procedure used.  Not all periodontists are qualified to use allograft, so they do the traditional route.  The process makes a big difference in the amount of pain or lack of pain.

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