braces off!

[Guest guest]

Hey everyone

I don't post here very much (though I'm pretty addicted to reading

the posts haha), but today was a big day for me and I just wanted to

share that with some people who would really understand!! I got my

braces off today, just 5 months after surgery I was originally

told 2 years total, and today it's been 19 months, so I'm pretty

happy with that, especially since I'm now going on a 4 month trip to

the UK. Now I get to go with just my retainers!! There's just

two things that are bugging me: my retainers are wire ones, that I

have to wear continuously for the next three months... It's got me

down because I was so excited to have no wires over my teeth, only

to find out that I still will. Also, one of my teeth got hurt in

the surgery I guess, and it's looking like it will need a root

canal. I know after having jaw surgery a little root canal is not a

big deal at all, and that a lot of other people need to get them

too...it just seems that after all this I shouldn't need any more

dental work. Anyhow, I'm sure tomorrow I won't care nearly so much,

but I find it's really mentally hard with this surgery, because at

the outset I just expected and hoped everything would turn out

perfect...I've already come to accept that I'm left with lip

incompetence which I'd hoped surgery would cure, and also a chipped

tooth as a result of the surgery, it's hard to realize that now one

of my teeth is dead from it too. They are all really little

things, and I know it, but it just gets to me anyhow..I'm sure I'll

feel better about it all tomorrow, in the meantime, sorry for my

rant, and thanks for listening!!

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[Guest guest]

Congratulations !! We had surgery around the same time. I

am almost 5 1/2 months post op (upper, lower, genio). You are so

lucky. I have no end in sight with my braces. I am still having

the same problems and worse headaches every day now from my left

TMJ, none of my teeth line up and/or touch except half of one when I

bite down, midlines still off, still sore and numb in places. Are

you still sore, hurt anywhere?

> Hey everyone

> I don't post here very much (though I'm pretty addicted to reading

> the posts haha), but today was a big day for me and I just wanted

to

> share that with some people who would really understand!! I got

my

> braces off today, just 5 months after surgery I was originally

> told 2 years total, and today it's been 19 months, so I'm pretty

> happy with that, especially since I'm now going on a 4 month trip

to

> the UK. Now I get to go with just my retainers!! There's just

> two things that are bugging me: my retainers are wire ones, that

I

> have to wear continuously for the next three months... It's got

me

> down because I was so excited to have no wires over my teeth, only

> to find out that I still will. Also, one of my teeth got hurt in

> the surgery I guess, and it's looking like it will need a root

> canal. I know after having jaw surgery a little root canal is not

a

> big deal at all, and that a lot of other people need to get them

> too...it just seems that after all this I shouldn't need any more

> dental work. Anyhow, I'm sure tomorrow I won't care nearly so

much,

> but I find it's really mentally hard with this surgery, because at

> the outset I just expected and hoped everything would turn out

> perfect...I've already come to accept that I'm left with lip

> incompetence which I'd hoped surgery would cure, and also a

chipped

> tooth as a result of the surgery, it's hard to realize that now

one

> of my teeth is dead from it too. They are all really little

> things, and I know it, but it just gets to me anyhow..I'm sure

I'll

> feel better about it all tomorrow, in the meantime, sorry for my

> rant, and thanks for listening!!

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