surgically widen width roof of mouth

[Guest guest]

Has anyone has this? How do they do it? Is the split made on the top

of the roof of my mouth where i'd be able to feel it??

[Guest guest]

I had the roof of the mouth split in order to widen it. Sometimes

they use bone from your hip but my surgeon didn't and said the split

wasn't that wide and it would heal over. I had a plastic splint

attached to my braces after the surgery so you can't feel whats

happened to the roof of the mouth. They removed the splint after 6

weeks and I gota strong wire placed round the front of my teeth by

the Orthodontist, the reason for this is that though the split has

healed over it is still soft tissue and needs more time to heal and

things would collapse apparently if the wire was not fitted. Feeling

the roof of my mouth now I cannot feel any split at all and would not

have a clue where they did the incision so they must have done a good

job!

> Has anyone has this? How do they do it? Is the split made on the

top

> of the roof of my mouth where i'd be able to feel it??

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[Guest guest]

Did you also have upper surgery? I had upper, lower and they split

the roof of my mouth, but I'm pretty sure they did it from above

while doing the LeFort I, so there was no incision on the roof of my

mouth. I've had another surgery on my palate and they used stitches

for that, so I don't know why they wouldn't for this if there was an

incision there. I had a removable splint from the beginning, and

there was never any incision that I could feel or see. If you didn't

have upper surgery, they may have done it differently though.

Lydia

> > Has anyone has this? How do they do it? Is the split made on the

> top

> > of the roof of my mouth where i'd be able to feel it??

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[Guest guest]

I'm pretty sure that they always go from the top like a modified

Le-Fort. For mine, I had my braces 3 weeks pre-op and a Haas type

appliance (the expander) put in 1 week pre-op. Apparantly I need to

have this appliance in for 6 months untill new bone fills in the gap

where the original sutre had formed. Although I'd much rather a wire

like scottieuk had because its really hard to talk with this thing and

food always gets stuck in it. Anyways, at almost 3weeks post op, the

only thing I can feel is some stiches left under my top lip. Other

than that its just hard to chew anything hard cause it hurts to put

any pressure on my top teeth. Oh and a bunch of numbness all around

my top gums.

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