Chewing - for the first time

[Guest guest]

Hi all!

I just got the go-ahead from my surgeon to chew again. He said not

to go crazy and rip meat off bones with my teeth - but to break

things up and chew them.

The strange thing is - I still can't feel my gums! (I'm almost 7-

weeks post op.) Is this normal? I feel like I'm chewing with someone

else's teeth! They look great - but I can't feel myself chewing -

and it's a STRANGE feeling...or lack therof. Feeling is coming back

everywhere else little by little.

This may be a good time to schedule a tooth cleaning, huh...can't

feel the scarping anyway ... :-)

Seriously - how long did all of you have post-op numbness in your

gums?

/:-B ,

Corinne