Re: talking with splint------Well I survived

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-for the 2nd time around in the past 10 weeks,just got home today

face swollen and distorted even worse than in round one,.....This

time he has wired in a wafer surgical splint and unlike the first

surgery I cannot talk at all, I am using a " fisher price " Magna

Marker " works great for communicating.,the splint really hampers

trying to use the syringe for feeding ,Maybe it's all technique ??

Im sure I'll figure it out,in the next 6 weeks....

Nice to be back home, even though it was just 26 hours in

Hospital ,time goes so slow in there staring at a clock that just

seems

to stand still.....

Take care

Bob

In orthognathicsurgerysupport , " Sara "

<sararegine@a...> wrote:

> Rymi48

>

> I've just done a quick search to see whether I could find an

> explanation of different types of splints and from what I could

gather,

> different surgeons use different names to decribe essentially the

same

> thing. Some, such as my orthodontist, refer to the splint as a

wafer

> and others refer to an acrylic splint. I know for sure that a

splint is

> designed specifically to your case so it will differ from patient

to

> patient. I am going to hazard a guess that all splints used

nowadays

> are more or less the same size in terms of thickness but I'm sure

that

> after having it in your mouth for several weeks it feels huge and

> grosse! I think at first it will be hard for us to talk with a

splint

> and elastics but like all things, practice makes perfect and

eventually

> we will get the hang of things. It will be important not to overdo

it

> initially so if you are asking these questions because you are

planning

> around work I would try to get as much time off as possible to

recover

> without too much pressure. Remember also that as your jaw heals the

> surgeon will be presumably graduating you to different types of

> elastics, some may be tighter than others (at least this has been

the

> case for others and will be for me from what I understand).

>

> Sara

>

>

> >

> > will I be able to talk with a wafer splint a

> > and a few elastics or will i not be able to

> > talk so people can understand me? Also what is

> > the difference between a wafer splint and other splints.

> > Has anyone had the big splint versus this wafer kind

> > whats it like thx to all