Re: Dear Jay: Frustrated and I'm not even close to done...

[Guest guest]

Little consolation to you or me, but they probably would not have

done the surgery on you 20 years ago. Nor on me. Didn't even consider

matching the jaws, my first time around.

It was a great, big, external incision, I think, way back then. More

risky than worth the results. With major, big-time wired shut,

sandbags, weeks in hospital, etc., etc.

Thank you, space program, for titanium and all the other advances!

Cammie

> I know, I had an overbite also and I was always a little self-

> conscious about it, but I just got used to it. My wife is

> beautiful, I don't know how I got her, just lucky I guess.

>

> The reason I had surgery was my dentist told me if I didn't, I

would

> lose some teeth. So I started this whole thing with the braces,

etc.

>

> If I had it to do all over again, I would have done the surgery

when

> I was young, like 20 years ago, so I wouldn't have to go through

> half my life with that overbite. But I never even knew it was an

> option. I know when you're young you don't want to have braces.

> You think people are laughing at you but is that really true? I'm

> 44 years old and I didn't want them either, I thought that people

> would think I'm crazy: " what's he doing with braces at his age? " I

> was so freaked out about it that I got the clear ceramic ones on my

> upper teeth so they wouldn't be so noticeable. That actually

worked

> out ok, though.

>

> Oh well it's almost over now. Everybody is used to seeing me with

> braces, it's like nothing. A lot more adults have braces these

> days. It used to be only children had braces, you never saw them

on

> adults.

>

> Anyway I should have done it when I was younger, that's my only

> regret.

>

> Jay

>