Hello, listeners, welcome back to Tooth and Cloud podcast. You know, we may have lost a member, but you have the bloodline still here.

So Wes Larson, our bear biologist.

And then I'm his brother, Jeff.

And Mike is out having fun in the Cook Islands right now.

He's doing some diving without us, seeing humpback whales.

Wes, this is our first surgery episode where I'm not the one suffering from a surgery.

Yeah.

I had a surgery last week.

It was a gum graft.

So I had some bad gum recession because I used to brush my teeth way too hard.

And our brother, our older brother, Cyrus, who's a dentist, told me that I finally had to do it.

So I did it.

And they could either take gums from a cadaver and graft it onto my gums, so like a dead body.

Oh, George Washington style.

Yeah.

I would have asked for his gums specifically.

Or they could do it from the top of my mouth, like my palate, and they cut your palate open and then take tissue from inside and then graft it. And Jesse said she would never

kiss me again if I did the cadaver ones. And I didn't want the cadaver ones anyways. So they had

to cut open my palate and my gums are full of stitches right now. So I've been wearing a retainer,

but I took it out just for this. So if I start seeing blood, if you start seeing blood coming,

dripping down out of my mouth, just know I'm willing to go to that length, Jeff, just for

this here podcast. People think podcasting's easy. It's not. Literally bleeding out the mouth just to get you guys this information.

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