Re: second surgery?? worth it??

[Guest guest]

I do think that many people find the second surgery easier than the

first.

Cammie

>

> i had upper jaw surgery some months ago and right after surgery i

> noticed that my smile looked unsymetrical, the teeth on one side

> looked longer than on the other side..

> i went to the dentist yesterday. he said that my smile did look

> unsymetrical and that i would maybe need another surgery.

>

> when i've thought about a second surgery before, ive always

> thought " yes, id do it tomorrow if i could " but now im not so sure

> anymore..

> the whole " before surgery stress " and then the healing is a bit

hard

> on you.. and i dont really think its good to have surgery on the

> same place again... what if it doesnt heal alright?

> and what if the surgeon does the same mistake again?

> has anyone else had a second surgery because the first surgery

didnt

> turn out the way it was suppose to?

[Guest guest]

Quite a few have, for a variety of reasons. And not to scare you, but

some folks have even had three rounds, also for a variety of reasons.

Minirascal, I think, is the reigning champeen at numbers of surgical

procedures, but hers is a very complex case involving joints and

arthritis and a lot of other troubles you most likely do not have.

(As were some of these other multiple cases. Tricky joints are tricky

joints, and you don't want them if you can avoid them, I think.)

I can't say whether I would have or wouldn't. I suppose it would

depend on how severe the trouble was, and whether it affected my long-

term results. Also whether I could live happily with the results in

my appearance, but I'm pretty easygoing about that, and not eager for

surgeons to improve my appearance, per se. (Other folks have strongly

different feelings, and there's nothing wrong with that, as Seinfeld

would probably say.)

best,

Cammie

>

> i had upper jaw surgery some months ago and right after surgery i

> noticed that my smile looked unsymetrical, the teeth on one side

> looked longer than on the other side..

> i went to the dentist yesterday. he said that my smile did look

> unsymetrical and that i would maybe need another surgery.

>

> when i've thought about a second surgery before, ive always

> thought " yes, id do it tomorrow if i could " but now im not so sure

> anymore..

> the whole " before surgery stress " and then the healing is a bit

hard

> on you.. and i dont really think its good to have surgery on the

> same place again... what if it doesnt heal alright?

> and what if the surgeon does the same mistake again?

> has anyone else had a second surgery because the first surgery

didnt

> turn out the way it was suppose to?

[Guest guest]

Belinda,

I will have to have surgery a second time, but mine is absolutely

neccessary. I'm not to enthused about it, but I know I have to do

it. And I know that I've done the whole healing thing before, as far

as the liquid diet and the weight loss....I know I can do it.

Here's what I posted earlier today.....

I had upper and lower

jaw surgery Sept 24. I had posted about it right afterwards. My

lower jaw was set back and my upper jaw was set forward and also

widened.

While I was in the splint I noticed movement when I would open my

mouth and close it. I thougth it was the splint moving. I had my

splint removed at 6 weeks and all looked fine. I did notice that my

upper teeth were moving, but I didn't think anything of it. I went

to my ortho and they changed out my upper wire, it was split for

surgery, so they had to put in a whole wire. Right before

Thanksgiving I had emailed the surgeon's secretary asking that she

forward a question to them...it was about the teeth moving. I never

heard anything. Then in Dec I had to go back to my ortho and I told

him I hadn't been able to talk to the surgeon yet, but I asked him

to look and he did. He was almost in shock!!! He said he wasn't

going to do any adjustments because I needed to see the surgeons

ASAP. He said that the entire top jaw was what was moving. So I went

to see the surgeons. My top teeth are moving up and down, and it is

my jaw, not the teeth. They said they have never seen anything like

this at all, maybe movement before surgery, but never after surgery.

They said all the plates and hardware look fine, so they aren't sure

why this is happening!!! I don't have any pain....it moves when I

bite and if I do it a certain way I can sort of feel a little

tickle, mostly near my nose.

I have to have surgery again on the 31st of this month. They are

going in to remove the hardware and then putting more back in and

also in differnt places. They may even have to do a bone graft. With

the first surgery I was banded shut, and I could still open my mouth

a little, so I'm wondering if they will band me shut or wire me

shut. I'm a little afraid of being wired shut, esp when they have to

remove the wires. I'm not exactly sure how that works. I'll be in

the splint again for 6 weeks. So that means a liquid diet for 6

weeks again. I don't look forward to it all at!!! Right now I'm not

allowed to eat anything harder than potatos. Also last time I was

put on a blood thinner and had to have shots for 7 days after

surgery. That's not that bad. When I had surgery the first time, I

was only there the night of the surgery so I am wondering if, given

the circumstances, they'll keep me longer. I don't have any vacation

time left at work, so I'll be out of work!

I wish you the best of luck in what you decide. I'm sorry I wasn't

really able to help you. But I know what you are going through!!

~

>

> i had upper jaw surgery some months ago and right after surgery i

> noticed that my smile looked unsymetrical, the teeth on one side

> looked longer than on the other side..

> i went to the dentist yesterday. he said that my smile did look

> unsymetrical and that i would maybe need another surgery.

>

> when i've thought about a second surgery before, ive always

> thought " yes, id do it tomorrow if i could " but now im not so sure

> anymore..

> the whole " before surgery stress " and then the healing is a bit

hard

> on you.. and i dont really think its good to have surgery on the

> same place again... what if it doesnt heal alright?

> and what if the surgeon does the same mistake again?

> has anyone else had a second surgery because the first surgery

didnt

> turn out the way it was suppose to?

[Guest guest]

My assymetric situation is being corrected in a different way. i am

6.5 months post surgery for upper/lower/genio. I was assymetric

before the surgery but no one noticed as i had a huge gummy smile

and no chin and those stood out so much, they were the focus. so it

is not as if the surgeon did anything WRONG, the surgery went fine,

it's just that with the corrections, my assymetry shows up much

more. see my pix under photos, - off center chin and you'll

see what i mean. mine is being corrected by my ortho shifting all

my teeth, upper and lower, to the left to match midline of lips (he

made spaces by " polishing " my teeth with a diamond tool), then this

coming summer, the surgeon will put an implant in my chin to make it

look more symmetrical. i will still have a little assymmetry in the

lip area, muscle pull they call it, where one side of my mouth pulls

harder than the other so you see more teeth. i can't FEEL that this

is happening, but you can see it in pix. Can this method be an

option for you?

>

> i had upper jaw surgery some months ago and right after surgery i

> noticed that my smile looked unsymetrical, the teeth on one side

> looked longer than on the other side..

> i went to the dentist yesterday. he said that my smile did look

> unsymetrical and that i would maybe need another surgery.

>

> when i've thought about a second surgery before, ive always

> thought " yes, id do it tomorrow if i could " but now im not so sure

> anymore..

> the whole " before surgery stress " and then the healing is a bit

hard

> on you.. and i dont really think its good to have surgery on the

> same place again... what if it doesnt heal alright?

> and what if the surgeon does the same mistake again?

> has anyone else had a second surgery because the first surgery

didnt

> turn out the way it was suppose to?

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry to hear about your situation and I've read another very

sad case recently posted here. The bottom line is the fact that

you have to live with your mouth/smile/face forever. A couple

months of downtime is a mere blip on the big picture of life.

Although my mandibular advancement/genioplasty of ten years

ago covered a number of bases such as giving me a correct bite,

it did not adequately address my very recessive chin and also

failed to correct my lip incompetence which my OS told me at a

post-op appointment could have been corrected had he also

done the upper jaw. Anyway, fast forward to the present. I

recently had a large second genioplasty to finally get a chin and I

certainly am glad that I did, I shouldn't have waited ten years to

do it. Unfortunately the lip incompetence still exists, but the

genioplasty may have helped it some. I could have both jaws

redone to correct that, but it is within the realm of tolerable, but it

still makes me disgusted that it " could " have been corrected

from the start, but wasn't. At any rate though, don't allow a doctor

to convince you to compromise..... it's your body and you are the

one who lives with it. Obviously, this is quite difficult surgery to

go through and recover from and partial results or even total

failure is very disheartening.

>

> i had upper jaw surgery some months ago and right after

surgery i

> noticed that my smile looked unsymetrical, the teeth on one

side

> looked longer than on the other side..

> i went to the dentist yesterday. he said that my smile did look

> unsymetrical and that i would maybe need another surgery.

>

> when i've thought about a second surgery before, ive always

> thought " yes, id do it tomorrow if i could " but now im not so

sure

> anymore..

> the whole " before surgery stress " and then the healing is a bit

hard

> on you.. and i dont really think its good to have surgery on the

> same place again... what if it doesnt heal alright?

> and what if the surgeon does the same mistake again?

> has anyone else had a second surgery because the first

surgery didnt

> turn out the way it was suppose to?