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[quote=Anonymous]I did pinhole 4 years ago and love it.  Dentist tried to get me to do a traditional graft (cut from roof of mouth and sewn onto gums).  It would have been two 4-hour operations spread a few weeks apart to allow eating on the other side of the mouth during recovery periods.  That sounded gruesome and terrible so I looked up the alternatives:  Pinhole was close to the same price and the whole mouth was done in an hour under a choice of local or twilight anesthesia (I chose twilight.).  It was easy and wonderful.  Mouth was mildly sore for a few days but not bad at all.  No cuts on the palate (roof) of the mouth, no stitches, no scarring or mismatched tissue--and still holding up great now.  If a graft fails, it can actually fall out.  If pinhole fails, it just retracts back to where it was before--and the failure rate is pretty low.  I did the pinhole thinking "well if it fails, I can fall back on the old-school graft later" but it didn't fail, and I saved myself that experience.

I just had my regular cleaning and the dentist commented (with a surprised tone of voice) how well the pinhole gum surgery was holding up.  I honestly can't believe people still do this the old-fashioned way anymore. It's like the difference between old-school "cut you wide open" surgery and laparoscopic surgery.  Go for it.[/quote]

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