Had my last pre-op Ortho visit!

[Guest guest]

So yesterday was my last pre-op Othodontist visit. It went well, they

took impressions, and the poor girl couldn't get them back out of my

mouth, so she had to call for help. It took two of them working

together to get them unstuck!! She said that was a good thing though,

the more they stick, the better the mold. All I can say is that I'm

glad those are the last impressions I'll need taken while the braces

are on. Whew!

The good news: I don't need any additional hardware in my mouth for

this surgery. No surgical hooks or anything! Woohoo!

The not-so-good-but-not-really-bad-I-don't-think news:

I had to get two sets of x-rays. These are the profile view of the

bite. The first one they took I was biting down where my teeth fit

comfortably (they haven't really connected well since the braces went

on), and that was with my jaw slightly forward. When the Orthodontist

saw the results, he told me to do it again, only this time with my jaw

back where it belongs. He pushed on my jaw and showed me where he

wanted me to hold it.

It was so far back that my teeth barely connected, and I felt very

uncomfortable pressure in my ears that was on the verge of being

painful when I held it there for too long. It was also very hard to

hold the position without using my hand to hold my jaw there. I

explained all of this to him, and he told me that's typical of people

with overbites to push their jaws forward, but this is where my

muscles want to be (I swear he said " want to be " , but I think he meant

" should be " , If my muscles *wanted* to be in that position, they would

have been able to hold that position without assistance, right?).

So, now I'm concerned that they're going to base the whole surgery on

having my jaw so far backwards that it hurts in my ears, and they

might push it forward too much so that it's always like that.

My Orthodontist says not to worry because that's where my muscles

" want " to be, but I am. Am I just being paranoid? I do plan on

bringing this up with my OS when I see him next week as well.

~Jen

[Guest guest]

So yesterday was my last pre-op Othodontist visit. It went well, they

took impressions, and the poor girl couldn't get them back out of my

mouth, so she had to call for help. It took two of them working

together to get them unstuck!! She said that was a good thing though,

the more they stick, the better the mold. All I can say is that I'm

glad those are the last impressions I'll need taken while the braces

are on. Whew!

The good news: I don't need any additional hardware in my mouth for

this surgery. No surgical hooks or anything! Woohoo!

The not-so-good-but-not-really-bad-I-don't-think news:

I had to get two sets of x-rays. These are the profile view of the

bite. The first one they took I was biting down where my teeth fit

comfortably (they haven't really connected well since the braces went

on), and that was with my jaw slightly forward. When the Orthodontist

saw the results, he told me to do it again, only this time with my jaw

back where it belongs. He pushed on my jaw and showed me where he

wanted me to hold it.

It was so far back that my teeth barely connected, and I felt very

uncomfortable pressure in my ears that was on the verge of being

painful when I held it there for too long. It was also very hard to

hold the position without using my hand to hold my jaw there. I

explained all of this to him, and he told me that's typical of people

with overbites to push their jaws forward, but this is where my

muscles want to be (I swear he said " want to be " , but I think he meant

" should be " , If my muscles *wanted* to be in that position, they would

have been able to hold that position without assistance, right?).

So, now I'm concerned that they're going to base the whole surgery on

having my jaw so far backwards that it hurts in my ears, and they

might push it forward too much so that it's always like that.

My Orthodontist says not to worry because that's where my muscles

" want " to be, but I am. Am I just being paranoid? I do plan on

bringing this up with my OS when I see him next week as well.

~Jen