Re: Pre-surgical springs??

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Thanks ~ you are definitely more of an expert than I am=) I

barely know what my surgery involves and it's less than a month

away. I guess I just have to trust that my ortho knows what he's

doing and hasn't placed the springs in the wrong spot!

> >

> > At my last appt with my ortho, he put 2 springs between my eye

> teeth

> > and the ones behind them. He mentioned something like " I think

> > that's where they'll make the cuts " . The problem is, I barely

> know

> > *anything* about my surgery except that my upper jaw will be

moved

> > forward and my lower jaw moved back. Looking at some LeFort pics

I

> > didn't notice any that showed cuts being made in those places so

> I'm

> > at a loss. Is this normal? The assistant working on me (who put

> the

> > springs in) said she worked for another ortho before who never

did

> > this. I assume it's to make a space between my teeth for the

cuts

> to

> > be made, but it seems like an odd spot.

> >

> > I was never told exactly what will be done during my surgery and

I

> > think I may be having SARPE as well. Anybody else have cuts made

> in

> > a similar place?

> >

> > Thanks for the help

> >