pix of hooks

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Most anybody who has a picture of a mouth wired shut has hooks... Not

sure about those who had arch bars, and one fellow in the UK had much

larger wires or bars that may have supplemented the hooks. But most

wired mouths have them.

Some banded ones do, too.

Sometimes the surgeon can indeed use those little posts that are made

for elastics, too. Sometimes they install larger hooks just for the

wires. I had nothing installed pre-op, and was neither wired nor

banded at first. When my surgeon put on the bands, he added a couple

of bits of big, twisty wire. By then, though, there was so much other

stuff in there with the splint and all that I hardly noticed them.

And some folks never have hooks. Some folks have hooks throughout. As

in most other things, it all depends on you and your surgeon.

Cammie

>

> I swear I saw in one of the photo albums a photo of someone with

> hooks on but now I can't remember where. I'll sift through the

photos

> more later on this week and see if I can dig something up for all

of

> us pre-oppers to ooogle at.

>

> Sara