Re: Question for UK members

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Far as I know, if you're having one or both jaws cut apart and screwed

back together, you need (and should welcome) general anesthesia,

intubation and all.

I asked my surgeon whether we couldn't do my lower advancement with a

drip anesthetic. " Nope. We'd wake you up, " was the reply.

I don't know that this is true. Don't know that it's true of the SARPE,

nor screw removal (if you need screw removal). But I can't remember

anybody who didn't have intubation who had the cuts through the bone of

either jaw.

Cammie

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> Do patients undergoing this type of surgery in the UK usualy intubated

> during the course of the operation?