Re: Orthognathic Surgery Poll

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Babe, you are trying to reinvent the wheel here. Fiddlesticks

set up a place on a site just for this, but I think the

participation was minimal. When I get back to work Monday (where the

technology is more elaborate than my little mind can do) I'll post

it, since there seems to be a demand, and you can set up categories

(or ask her to) to your heart's content. It's something

like " smartgroups, " best I remember....

Most people seem not to want to participate, though. Although maybe

I just concluded that, and haven't re-visited enough to be up on

what's going on...

But I think after years of being on these boards, that most people

seem mainly to want to ask their own questions, which are: what will

happen to me? how long will I be swollen? how long will I be numb?

Can I chew after I am unbanded/unwired? What can I eat while wired?

When can I open my mouth, and how widely?

Nothing wrong with those questions, except that usually the answers

are very individual, and consequently unanswerable on an individual,

or even a general basis.

C.

>

> In the interests of current and future patients, I think it would

> really be interesting if we all as we go along contribute to a

> fairly simple questionnaire that interests us all:

>

> To that end here are some simple questions to answer after surgery

> results are known:

>

> 1. What did you have done?

>

> 2. Was the dominant purpose of the surgery to achieve an

> aesthetic/cosmetic or functional result?

>

> 3. How old are you?

>

> 4. What are the dimensions of the change of any procedures, listed

> seperately.

>

> 5. What side effects have you noticed and are they permanent?

>

> 6. Would you consider the results of the surgery positive, neutral

> or negative in respect of aesthetics and functioanlity?

>

> All the answers can be as brief or as long as you want and we can

> present a simple set of percentages as we go along.

>

>