As you can see by the previous blog entry, we lengthened the split in my tongue last week. When we made the initial cuts we only went as far as the healed pocked from my tongue ring. This meant that I had no cut tissue resting on itself, since the back of the cut was already healed.
Since we added to the cut, I now have open tissue at the back of the cut that wants to close up and heal. This is not what I want, though. The tongue heals very quickly, and the newly separated pieces will try their best to reunite. Re-growth is inevitable.
I have been taking tissue paper and grabbing both halves of my tongue and pulling them apart. This keeps ripping the re-growth so that I can keep as much of the split as possible.
I was sitting there yesterday, staring blindly at my bathroom countertop, when I had a revelation. *bright idea* I can use dental floss to help separate the tissue! I took out a strand of floss and “flossed” the split, pushing my tongue out as far as I could, against the floss. It made quick work of the tissue that had regrown with much less pain than just pulling the tips apart.
So there you go! If you ever need to separate tissue (I guess it would actually be muscle since it’s the tongue.. oh well), unwaxed dental floss is what you need.
I am glad I could share that with you. My day is complete. Gnite.
