Re: New date and renewed hope (some questions)

[Guest guest]

I had my upper palate expanded 10 days ago. Here's what it involved

for me, as I understand it, they reach up between your teeth and lips-

--WAAAAAY up---and cut in and cut the palate into pieces and spread

it apart. They do not cut all the way through to your mouth. The

surgeon thought before surgery that he would use donor bone to

stabilize the spread, but it turns out he did not. They work in your

sinuses, so post-op, you are swollen and even at day 10, I have some

blood in the mucus of my nose. My surgeon did tight stitches there

so that my nose would not flare out, so it's a little uncomfortable

still, but at day 10, I am really doing very well. I'm 47. I also

had my lower jaw brought forward and a genioplasty. You'll do great,

try not to worry.

---Kathleen

>

> Hi all ~ maybe some of you remember me?!?=) I was a regular on here

> a couple months ago before my surgery got postponed. I am having

> upper and lower on a class III underbite/openbite, and my original

> surgery date was Sept. 15th. At the beg. of Sept. I was told by my

> ortho that he wanted to postpone it=( I was devastated! My whole

> life was (and still is) on hold for this surgery. I was completely

> discouraged and I hadn't been back to this site since. Now that my

> new date (Feb. 16th) is slowly coming up I'm starting to get

excited

> again and want to read up on everything since I forget so much! I'm

> starting to get a bit panicky and back in August this was a great

> place to calm my nerves since everyone is so helpful.

>

> A couple questions:

>

> 1. has anyone had an expansion of the upper palate? What does it

> involve exaclty ~ and how torturous is it??!

>

> 2. has anyone had surgery on their nose at the same time as their

> jaw surgery? (ie septoplasty, nasal surgery to improve their

> breathing)

>

> Hope to get to know you all again, and the new members!

>

[Guest guest]

I had my upper palate expanded 10 days ago. Here's what it involved

for me, as I understand it, they reach up between your teeth and lips-

--WAAAAAY up---and cut in and cut the palate into pieces and spread

it apart. They do not cut all the way through to your mouth. The

surgeon thought before surgery that he would use donor bone to

stabilize the spread, but it turns out he did not. They work in your

sinuses, so post-op, you are swollen and even at day 10, I have some

blood in the mucus of my nose. My surgeon did tight stitches there

so that my nose would not flare out, so it's a little uncomfortable

still, but at day 10, I am really doing very well. I'm 47. I also

had my lower jaw brought forward and a genioplasty. You'll do great,

try not to worry.

---Kathleen

>

> Hi all ~ maybe some of you remember me?!?=) I was a regular on here

> a couple months ago before my surgery got postponed. I am having

> upper and lower on a class III underbite/openbite, and my original

> surgery date was Sept. 15th. At the beg. of Sept. I was told by my

> ortho that he wanted to postpone it=( I was devastated! My whole

> life was (and still is) on hold for this surgery. I was completely

> discouraged and I hadn't been back to this site since. Now that my

> new date (Feb. 16th) is slowly coming up I'm starting to get

excited

> again and want to read up on everything since I forget so much! I'm

> starting to get a bit panicky and back in August this was a great

> place to calm my nerves since everyone is so helpful.

>

> A couple questions:

>

> 1. has anyone had an expansion of the upper palate? What does it

> involve exaclty ~ and how torturous is it??!

>

> 2. has anyone had surgery on their nose at the same time as their

> jaw surgery? (ie septoplasty, nasal surgery to improve their

> breathing)

>

> Hope to get to know you all again, and the new members!

>

[Guest guest]

ive had a septoplasty to improve my breathing while i didnt have it

with jaw surgery i had it when i got my tonsils removed, the

septoplasty really wasnt bad at all tonsils were no fun but septo

was fine, my breathing improved somewhat nothing special but it is

better, your nose is obviously sensitve to touch but other than that

its not bad, the worse part about it for me was when they took the

splints out of your nose, i dunno how your doc is doing it but i had

these plastic clear splints stitched in for 5 days, and when they

pulled out the splints it wasnt terrible just really uncomfortable,

dried snot blood etc can get real hard after a while but youll be

fine i wouldnt worry about that part of ur surgery at all, good luck

with ur stuff my jaw surgery is in july so...im a ways off lemme

know yours goes

[Guest guest]

ive had a septoplasty to improve my breathing while i didnt have it

with jaw surgery i had it when i got my tonsils removed, the

septoplasty really wasnt bad at all tonsils were no fun but septo

was fine, my breathing improved somewhat nothing special but it is

better, your nose is obviously sensitve to touch but other than that

its not bad, the worse part about it for me was when they took the

splints out of your nose, i dunno how your doc is doing it but i had

these plastic clear splints stitched in for 5 days, and when they

pulled out the splints it wasnt terrible just really uncomfortable,

dried snot blood etc can get real hard after a while but youll be

fine i wouldnt worry about that part of ur surgery at all, good luck

with ur stuff my jaw surgery is in july so...im a ways off lemme

know yours goes