Surgery a second time?

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I don't know if any of you remember me, but 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 was just wondering if any of you had ever heard of this happening?