A 76-year-old woman had healthy gums while using therapeutic patches for chronic pain, but developed severe gum pockets after stopping them. Her sister believes the patches were protecting her dental health, not just treating her original condition.
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Anyway, my sister was using the patches. She used them for a year. She was trying to get rid of a terrible groin pain and nothing has been able to work on this pain. It's unbelievable. But anyway, while she was on the patches, she had gone to the dentist a couple times and the dentist was marveling at her teeth. My sister's 76 and she was just marveling at her teeth. No pockets, everything looked great. So, long story short, my sister quit the patches because it wasn't helping her groin pain, which is why she got on them in the first place. Well, she went to the dentist today She's got terrible pockets all over her mouth. Oh my goodness! I said, see, the patches were working. Now you need to get back on them.