Re: sugical wires/clear braces

[Guest guest]

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This is the first time I have ever heard of a clear ceramic bracket

falling off and getting into your lung! I have clear ceramic braces

both on my top teeh and bottom teeth. Only my back teeth on the bottom

have the silver brackets. I also have surgical wires on and these were

put on with no problem about a month ago. My ortho never mentioned them

being changed for surgery and as far as I know I won't need to. I was

very adamant about having ceramic braces too as I had them in the past

and prefer them to the silver one which I also had for 4 years when i

was younger. In terms of what the surgical wires are they are basically

bigger, thicker and more rigid wires than the ones you have on at the

moment. This is for surgery so that they can support what ever work

gets done around them better and also I assume for banding or wiring.

You'll see when they first put the wires on that your teeth seem to

look a little less white i.e. the wire sticks out more in color than

the traditional wires. AFter a while you get used to it and from a

distance people still can't tell you've got braces so you should be

alrite for your dance recitals. The only bad thing I would say about

the surgical wires is that they really hurt the first couple of days

because they are so rigid but a few advils every 6 hours should do the

trick. It did for me. At the end of the day, putting on the surgical

wires should be considered an accomplishment because you are that much

closer to surgery!

Sara

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> Hi again. I have a question regarding surgical wires and clear

> braces. How many of you have done the surgery with ceramic (clear)

> braces on? I only have them on my top 8 teeth. When i first got them

> on my ortho mentioned changing them to silver for the surgery because

> they are safer. I think i am getting surgical wires on next week. Can

> they attach surgical wires to clear braces? Is this when he would

> change my brackets if he still is going to change them. It seems

like

> a waste for me and I really dont want them changed this early (my

> surgery will be in june/july) because of dance performances coming

> up. He said he changes them out incase one pops off and falls into

my

> lung he can find it. Do you think i could tell him i just want to

keep

> these on and take the very slight chance of that happening? None of

> my brackets have popped off yet either. And also...what exactly are

> surgical wires??? Thanks! ~

[Guest guest]

i think it really depends on how well aligned your teeth are. In my

case because I'd already had braces on for ten years it was fairly

quick to get my teeth aligned i.e. 4 months so they put the surgical

wires on me 2 months ahead of surgery. However, some people don't get

them put on until 1 month ahead or even less I think. Hooks also get

placed in your mouth, typically about a week before surgery. AT least

this is what I have been told but our veterans may know more than me on

this front.

Sara

> How soon before surgery do they typcially put on the surgical wires?

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> >From: " Sara " <sararegine@a...>

> >Reply-To: orthognathicsurgerysupport

> >To: orthognathicsurgerysupport

> >Subject: [Orthognathic Surgery Support ] Re: sugical wires/clear

braces

> >Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:46:23 -0000

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[Guest guest]

I have the " clear " ceramic braces on top just like you and silver on

the bottom. I had surgery---upper segmented Lefort (or whatever),

lower advancement, and genioplasty---in late November '04 to correct a

crossbite that was ruining my teeth. I wore the surgical wires for at

least a month. I had NO PROBLEM with the ceramic braces w/ regard to

either the surgical wires or surgery. No one ever even raised a

concern. I'm doing great. The swelling has been totally gone for

about a month. Still a little numb-ish in spots. It was hard for the

first few days because of the swelling. Then for 10 days of being

tightly banded and eating a liquid diet through a big syringe with a

tube on the end (I didn't like Zip n Squeeze that much, although I

LOVED their book, " The Healing Jaw " ). But, I am very happy I had the

surgery. I have been in braces since January '04 and have about

another 6 months to go. Good luck.