Hello, I hope that everyone has had a great holiday and you are all now looking forward to the new year if that's something you celebrate.

This is my second time trying to record this podcast because the first time I was about maybe a minute from finishing and then the fire alarms all went off and I had to evacuate.

So very exciting.

Anyway, have any of you heard the expression long in the tooth?

It's usually reserved for those of advanced years and comes from the fact that there's normally some gum recession as we age,

and this gum recession makes your teeth look normally some gum recession as we age, and this gum

recession makes your teeth look longer. For a couple of years now, I've had gum recession

on a single tooth, my front right Dracula tooth, my canine. Not because I'm of advancing

years, but because I'm right-handed and apparently brush my teeth like some kind of maniac.

And hard brushing right on that front bit there has meant I've pushed the gun back.

And it's not really been a big deal for me until recently I've started to have a lot of sensitivity

and kind of low level pain there and kind of avoiding chewing with the front right in my mouth

which is a bit weird so naturally I'm keen to find a solution to this so research tells me

that I'm pretty much down to two options that will work. And that is,

first of all, either a gum graft where they cut a bit of a healthy tissue at the roof of my mouth

and then suture it in, or a gum graft using tissue from a cadaver. Or the next one was pinhole surgery, where they kind of make pinhole

in your gum and then put a little hook thing in and then pull your gum down back into position.

Both of these things sound absolutely brutal to me. So if there are any dentists listening,

then please send me an email and tell me if there's any other solution to this, although I've kind of at the point now where I've realized

that I don't think there is.

Anyway, looking at those two options that I had there, you know, I got to there from researching

using critical thought and looking at a hierarchy of evidence. Now, if you're a long-time

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