Re: Re: Question regarding seeing orthodontist again post surgery

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Thanks Cammie, if it's just a matter of getting used to something different,

that seems doable but if it remained quite foreign feeling that it might be a

little scary.

ceast36532 <no_reply > wrote:

It's not a bad thing. It was unpleasant while I was biting down on

the scar tissue, but once we got that fixed I was OK. It's just that

the occlusion is different, and I don't bite the same way.

Nope. I don't think it's changing.

I would think a deliberate break is more controlled, and thus has

more predictable results. But that's just me speculating...

>

> It's still really soon -- and remember that those muscles have been

> immobilized for quite some time, now. (How could anyone who's

> survived being wired shut fail to remember!)

>

> But don't be panicked. Your surgeon (and even, perhaps, a physical

> therapist when the time is right) can help you work out any

problems

> you have. But don't start exercises more than he's told you to do

> without your surgeon's ok.

>

> About your mouth not feeling like your mouth: I asked my surgeon

once

> whether my mouth would ever feel like my own mouth.

>

> " Nope, " he said with a grin. " It's MY mouth now. "

>

> That's proved pretty much true for me. I'm not unhappy about it --

it

> works a lot better. But it doesn't feel like my mouth, still -- and

I

> had lower advancement in June 2002.

>

> Cammie