Re: Counting my blessings...

[Guest guest]

Oh my gosh! Why on earth did she choose to undergo that method? I

know most people don't like having braces, but I doubt not having

them is worth all the pain.

> Hi All,

>

> Well, after getting on these boards and complaining about how

crappy it

> is to be swollen and hungry, I have come face-to-face with a much

worse

> predicament. A new employee began work at the office where I

> occasionally freelance. She had been using my computer before I

got

> there and so I went to find her before I shut down her programs.

> Anyway, she was a young girl- 24- and she saw all my rubber bands

and

> stuff and told me she had just had jaw surgery as well! (this is

the

> first real live person I've met!) She said she just got the

hardware

> out and is on a soft food diet and is having a little bit of a

hard

> time adjusting and it still hurts to chew sometimes. She told me

that

> she had a slight underbite and got terrible headaches so they cut

her

> jaw and moved it a little back... the same as me but in the other

> direction! (they moved mine forward) I was looking at her and

thought

> something looked odd though because her bite was right but her

teeth

> were a bit crooked... that's when it occurred to me... she wasn't

> wearing braces! I think Cammie had mentioned once that on a rare

> occasion, they will do the surgery without braces by using screws

in

> your gums... That is what this poor girl had done and I could not

> believe it. She said that she was under for the surgery and they

> screwed 8 screws into her gums- top and bottom- and the wires and

> rubber bands were anchored to those instead of the orthodontic

hooks.

> She was totally wired shut for 8 weeks & Her gums started to heal

OVER

> the screws and bands... you could not see them and they had

to " dig "

> them out at the end. She said she was in INTENSE pain for the

first

> week-at least- constantly on drugs and barely awake most of the

time

> and unable to do anything for herself for at least two weeks...

> completely bed-ridden... I shudder just thinking about it...

>

> Seriously, talking to her made me feel like my ordeal is a walk in

the

> park on a lovely autumn day. I guess it's all a matter of

> perspective...

>

> Tova

[Guest guest]

Now that you mention it, Tova, I do think I have heard a bit about

this embedded anchor business, too. The arch bars are something

different, and in my book, equally evil, as they can get embedded all

along the arch, best I understand (thank God I never had them). I

would think they probably use arch bars, too, when you break your jaw

in an accident, God forbid! and there's no time to install the

brackets and wires before the surgery.

There are worse things than braces, at least in my book.

Cammie

> > Hi All,

> >

> > Well, after getting on these boards and complaining about how

> crappy it

> > is to be swollen and hungry, I have come face-to-face with a much

> worse

> > predicament. A new employee began work at the office where I

> > occasionally freelance. She had been using my computer before I

> got

> > there and so I went to find her before I shut down her programs.

> > Anyway, she was a young girl- 24- and she saw all my rubber bands

> and

> > stuff and told me she had just had jaw surgery as well! (this is

> the

> > first real live person I've met!) She said she just got the

> hardware

> > out and is on a soft food diet and is having a little bit of a

> hard

> > time adjusting and it still hurts to chew sometimes. She told me

> that

> > she had a slight underbite and got terrible headaches so they cut

> her

> > jaw and moved it a little back... the same as me but in the other

> > direction! (they moved mine forward) I was looking at her and

> thought

> > something looked odd though because her bite was right but her

> teeth

> > were a bit crooked... that's when it occurred to me... she wasn't

> > wearing braces! I think Cammie had mentioned once that on a rare

> > occasion, they will do the surgery without braces by using screws

> in

> > your gums... That is what this poor girl had done and I could not

> > believe it. She said that she was under for the surgery and they

> > screwed 8 screws into her gums- top and bottom- and the wires

and

> > rubber bands were anchored to those instead of the orthodontic

> hooks.

> > She was totally wired shut for 8 weeks & Her gums started to heal

> OVER

> > the screws and bands... you could not see them and they had

> to " dig "

> > them out at the end. She said she was in INTENSE pain for the

> first

> > week-at least- constantly on drugs and barely awake most of the

> time

> > and unable to do anything for herself for at least two weeks...

> > completely bed-ridden... I shudder just thinking about it...

> >

> > Seriously, talking to her made me feel like my ordeal is a walk

in

> the

> > park on a lovely autumn day. I guess it's all a matter of

> > perspective...

> >

> > Tova

[Guest guest]

She had the surgery that way because her teeth were straight naturally,

they just were coming together at a place that caused pain. The odd

thing is, all the poking and prodding made her teeth crooked... now

they are like " your teeth will probably go back to the way they were...

if they don't, nothing a couple of months in braces can't fix " Oy.

>

> Oh my gosh!  Why on earth did she choose to undergo that method?  I

> know most people don't like having braces, but I doubt not having

> them is worth all the pain.

>

>

> > Hi All,

> >

> > Well, after getting on these boards and complaining about how

> crappy it

> > is to be swollen and hungry, I have come face-to-face with a much

> worse

> > predicament. A new employee began work at the office where I

> > occasionally freelance. She had been using my computer before I

> got

> > there and so I went to find her before I shut down her programs.

> > Anyway, she was a young girl- 24- and she saw all my rubber bands

> and

> > stuff and told me she had just had jaw surgery as well! (this is

> the

> > first real live person I've met!) She said she just got the

> hardware

> > out and is on a soft food diet and is having a little bit of a

> hard

> > time adjusting and it still hurts to chew sometimes. She told me

> that

> > she had a slight underbite and got terrible headaches so they cut

> her

> > jaw and moved it a little back... the same as me but in the other

> > direction! (they moved mine forward)  I was looking at her and

> thought

> > something looked odd though because her bite was right but her

> teeth

> > were a bit crooked... that's when it occurred to me... she wasn't

> > wearing braces! I think Cammie had mentioned once that on a rare

> > occasion, they will do the surgery without braces by using screws

> in 

> > your gums... That is what this poor girl had done and I could not

> > believe it. She said that she was under for the surgery and they

> > screwed 8 screws into her gums- top and bottom-  and the wires and

> > rubber bands were anchored to those instead of the orthodontic

> hooks.

> > She was totally wired shut for 8 weeks & Her gums started to heal

> OVER

> > the screws and bands... you could not see them and they had

> to " dig "

> > them out at the end. She said she was in INTENSE pain for the

> first

> > week-at least- constantly on drugs and barely awake most of the

> time

> > and unable to do anything for herself for at least two weeks...

> > completely bed-ridden... I shudder just thinking about it...

> >

> > Seriously, talking to her made me feel like my ordeal is a walk in

> the

> > park on a lovely autumn day. I guess it's all a matter of

> > perspective...

> >

> > Tova

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