Re: Re: Surgery costs (after insurance) - Tova

[Guest guest]

Tova,

My bottom braces will be put on this month. With SARPE being done over

the summer the top braces can't go on until 6 weeks later. I'm not

required to be banded for SARPE.

Lower jaw surgery will occur down the road.

Hope this makes sense. I'm still pretty confused myself!

Kate

Re: [Orthognathic Surgery Support ] Re: Surgery costs

(after insurance) - Diane

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> Hi Kate,

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> You are having surgery before the braces?

> How are they going to anchor you closed?

> just curious...

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> Tova

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> > Hi Diane,

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> > Thankfully, it's never too late to fix something that your unhappy

> > with. One of the staff members at the orthodontists office told me

> > they have a patient in their 80s!!

> > And in today's age 40 is considered young.

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> > As for my own treatment, I have to get SARPE done over the

> summer to

> > widen my upper jaw. It will be quite interesting to see how

> this plays

> > out as I have never had major surgery in my life except when I

> was an

> > infant and of course I can't remember that!

> >

> > I'm 21 years old and I know that I'm going to feel really weird

> going> back to college next fall looking like I got knocked out,

> with a huge

> > gap in my front teeth. Hopefully the ortho will not make me

> suffer too

> > much embarassment for an extended period of time.

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> > 6 weeks after surgery I'm told that I would then get my top

> braces put

> > on, with lower? jaw surgery occurring the following year.

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> > As for the oral surgeon you go to, he doesn't seem too

> confident about

> > whether your insurance will pay for it. Mine on the other hand is

> > overconfident that I will get covered, so I don't know which

> doc is

> > better to have!! I am lucky though because his office is

> handling the

> > whole thing for me. My precert forms have been sent to Blue

> Cross and

> > at this point I'm just waiting to hear back from them.

> >

> > Kate

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