Dr. Katie To describes a professional speaker who had a gum graft and was told not to speak, smile, laugh, or move her lips for seven days. The restriction let blood vessels grow into the graft properly. She was cleared before her next speaking engagement and performed successfully.
Recently had a patient come in, and she speaks for a living. And so whenever I did this procedure, I told her she couldn't talk. And then she was she she didn't talk for seven days because then she had a speaking engagement. I saw her before her speaking engagement, and then I saw that she was healed, and I gave her the okay. And then she ended up doing her speaking engagement, but it was still able to heal. The reason why it's no talking is because if you're watching me talk right now, you can see if we're doing a gum graft down here on my lower lip. You can see how much my lower lip is moving. You can see whenever I smile, talk, chew, laugh, do anything, sing, eat, swallow, drink. If you're doing a grafting procedure, do you want to be moving around it that much? Do you think that the blood vessels are going to come in and heal in that area?
