Clare/Re: Surgery keeps getting delayed!

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Clare,

if venting makes you feel better then vent! that's what we're here

for.

here's a little insight from my own experience. i wore braces from

the time i was 7 to 17 years old and was also told that there would

be a 25% chance that my jaw would revert. Guess what? it did and with

a vengeance so much so that my TMJ pain got much worse and i ended up

with a 8mm open bite. So to my horror at the tender age of 26 I was

faced with wearing braces AGAIN in order to get ready for the

surgery! and i was grad student at school forced to deal with stupid

comments from other students. I think I cried non-stop for 2 days.

The good news is that since surgery I have felt so much less

conscience about having the braces on. In fact, knowing that the

worse part of all of this procedure is over and that soon I will take

the braces off for once and for all just makes me feel so much

better. With my jaw now in its proper position the braces also feel a

lot less in your face. At least that's how I feel. I'm constantly

smiling now and that's with a gao in between my two front teeth

(which will disappear in 1 month). So my word of advice is not to let

fears about having to wear braces post-op be the one deciding factor

against going through with it. Look at it this way, whether you do

the surgery or not you'll be stuck with the braces for a while longer

the only difference being that with the surgery you'll have a

guarantee of no relapse whereas without the surgery you won't.

Just my 2 cents. Don't give up!

Sara

> > > Hi all,

> > > I was actually supposed to have my surgery august 8th, and it

> > keeps getting

> > > pushed back. My surgeon looked at me 10 days before surgery and

> > said that my

> > > roots were still too close together (3 piece lefort ... or

> > something...).

> > > Anyway, so he said that I should be ready for surgery on the

15th,

> > a week

> > > later. Sure enough, he still thinks the roots are too close

> > together, and

> > > doesnt think that they'll be ready for the 22nd either, 2 weeks

> > after my

> > > original date. I am a student in my last year of school, and I

set

> > aside a

> > > full 3 weeks to have this surgery, and now the entire 3 weeks

are

> > blown. The

> > > surgeon had given me no warning about the possibility that this

> > surgery

> > > would not happen on the date I wanted it back in January, on

Aug.

> > 8th.

> > > Anyway, I am so completely frustrated, and now I will have to

take

> > a week

> > > off of school in addition to my October break to have this

surgery,

> > if even

> > > then he decides I am ready. My orthodontist is also a little

> > annoyed, and

> > > has said that my surgeon has done this to other people in the

past,

> > as he

> > > tends to be a perfectionist. I am on an extremely tight time

budget

> > for

> > > this, and the thought of having braces through my last 2 years

in

> > college

> > > really makes me upset, as I still feel unnecessairly self-

conscious

> > about

> > > them. The roots of my teeth appear " too close " only to the

surgeon,

> > not the

> > > orthodontist. The surgery is not completely necessary, and I'm

> > almost

> > > inclined to just call it all off and have my braces off by

> > December. And

> > > besides making 2 incisions for a 3-piece cut, does anyone know

> > another way

> > > this could be done? Like, what if my roots NEVER get far apart

> > enough for

> > > the surgeon? We have been trying to get them apart since May.

> > Anyone ever

> > > have a similar situation??

> > > Sorry about the long email... Clearly very frustrated by the

> > entire

> > > experience!!

> > > Thanks, and hopefully my original early-August surgery buddies

are

> > on their

> > > way to a speedy recovery w/o me!

> > > Clare

> > >

> > >

> > >