Re: Just got the braces...

March 22, 2005

I'm hoping that what you're having done is genioplasty, rather than

angioplasty, since the latter is a procedure that's done to remove

plaque from the blood vessels around your heart!

I know. Just teasing. It's hard to get used to all these big, new

words... Genio is generally slicing the chin and sliding a part of it

forward or backward, depending on your needs.

Don't be upset about waiting. The procedures have improved in those

nine years, and the docs have learned much more about doing them. It

sounds as though you need some fairly complicated help, and I hope

you'll be pleased with your results, this time, when all is said and

done!

cammie

>

> Thanks for the response! I went back to the orthodontist hoping he

> could straighten out my teeth a little since the first time I had

> braces. However, he said the problem couldn't be fixed with

braces.

> My lower jaw is too small (I can't remember the

name...retromyal...I

> have it written down in the kitchen, I'm just too lazy to go look

> right now :-) and when I had braces the first time, they brought my

> top teeth back to meet my bottom teeth. Although my teeth look

okay,

> there is no support for my nose because they brought my teeth back

so

> far, and I don't have a chin. So I met with the surgeon and I will

> have the lower jaw surgery to extend my jaw, and he also thinks

that

> my top jaw has grown too long so he is going to fix that as well.

I

> think I'm also going to have the angioplasty done so that I have a

> chin and won't look so 'square' after the surgery. But before I can

> have the surgery, they have to bring my top teeth back out to where

> they were before I got my braces the first time. It's really

> upsetting because I had my braces on just 9 years ago and this

> process was available, but never presented to me as an option. I

> would have MUCH rather had it done when I was in middle

school/early

> high school than having it now as I'm just starting to teach. But,

> these things happen.

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