Re: First consultation today!

[Guest guest]

Congrats, Mira! L

[Guest guest]

Ahhh good news Mira, its all happening for you then. I know the

thought of braces if not something to get wildly excited about but

what you will get excited about is how much your teeth are

straightening up and changing, you'll be obessed with it, oh and

cleaning them! Good luck for September, funny enough my top one is

comming off for my wedding, i am not sure if thats good for bad as

i'll be free for a month then back on again!

B

xx

> I went into hospital to see my consultant for the

> first time in three years now I have decided I do need

> to have surgery on my jaw.

>

> The first thing he said as I entered his office was,

> " I don't know if you'll remember me, three years is a

> long time! "

> " Of COURSE I remember you! " I replied.

> Mr Harper is the wonderful man who, when I was having

> a nervous breakdown over looking like a freak when I

> first saw him, said " Mira, you're a good-looking,

> healthy, young woman. This isn't as bad as you make

> out! " And with those words I immediately felt 100%

> better.

>

> Sadly now I can't avoid the inevitable any longer and

> it looks like I'll have to go for braces and then

> surgery. Today they took X-rays of my jaw and booked

> me in at the surgeon/consultant/orthodontist clinic in

> September. This is where you have all THREE

> specialists all peering down your mouth! It's enough

> to make you floss for life.

>

> So today was the first " official " step on my jaw

> journey. Next update in September!

[Guest guest]

Hi Mira

Congratulations! Its a huge first step and you must be really excited

to get this show on the road! I understand your hesitancy about braces

- I really was dreading it soo much but its surprising how much you

get used to it and how much you grow personally in this whole process

- I'm finding it is forcing me to evaluate who I am and try to

appreciate me for who I am. Since getting some advice on here a few

days ago I've come to recite a little personal mantra to myself when

I'm feeling low ... " There is more to me than an underbite and braces "

- and its true! Its quite empowering really.

I'd also like to share something else about beginning the whole

process that really helped me. when I came home from the orthodontist

the day I got my full braces put on - I shut myself up in my room and

felt sorry for myself for the rest of the evening. And while I am very

pleased that I allowed myself that feeling, I decided that very night

that if I thought this was something I couldn't do - then I'd just

darn well have to prove to myself that I CAN do things that I

previously thought I couldn't. So...I'd been trying to run at the gym

the past year or so but could never make it past a few minutes - I

just thought it was impossible, even though I " m pretty healthy and do

lots of other exercise fine. But I told myself that I'm going to prove

to myself that I COULD do it and started training that very night. Its

taken me a few months but I ran my first 3k recently and am going to

enter a 5k race very soon!

The moral of the story? YOU CAN DO IT!

Joanna

> I went into hospital to see my consultant for the

> first time in three years now I have decided I do need

> to have surgery on my jaw.

>

> The first thing he said as I entered his office was,

> " I don't know if you'll remember me, three years is a

> long time! "

> " Of COURSE I remember you! " I replied.

> Mr Harper is the wonderful man who, when I was having

> a nervous breakdown over looking like a freak when I

> first saw him, said " Mira, you're a good-looking,

> healthy, young woman. This isn't as bad as you make

> out! " And with those words I immediately felt 100%

> better.

>

> Sadly now I can't avoid the inevitable any longer and

> it looks like I'll have to go for braces and then

> surgery. Today they took X-rays of my jaw and booked

> me in at the surgeon/consultant/orthodontist clinic in

> September. This is where you have all THREE

> specialists all peering down your mouth! It's enough

> to make you floss for life.

>

> So today was the first " official " step on my jaw

> journey. Next update in September!

[Guest guest]

Mira, Congratulations on taking the Orthognathic " Plunge " and welcome

to the new-to-braces club! I've written to you before: I'm 47 with an

underbite, and I just got my ceramic brackets on this past Tuesday.

My OD is putting the braces on in stages because I have jaw joint

issues and because he wants me to get used to the sensation of having

something on my teeth. The top brackets feel just fine, but some of

the lower ones have been digging into the inside of my lower lip.

Each day, though, gets better. I've been using lots of wax, which

your OD will give to you. This next Tuesday is spacers day, and then

the following Tuesday the spacers come out and the bands (around the

molars), archwires, and ligatures (o-rings) get installed. It will be

great to see my teeth move into position for surgery. I'm having a

BSSO (Bilateral Sagittal Split(Ramus)Osteotomy) for mandibular set-

back, and a LeFort for maxillary advancement, as I also have

Maxillary Hypoplasia (midface deficit). My surgery is next summer,

after I've had braces on for ten months. I wasn't too thrilled about

having the braces either, but I won't have them on forever, nor will

you! And, your teeth will move faster, they say, IF you stay

positive. I intend to stay VERY positive. You will be just fine,

Mira!! Try not to worry, okay? :^(_-) Have a nice weekend! ~~ Diane-

-- In orthognathicsurgerysupport , Mira Manga

<MiraManga@b...> wrote:

> I went into hospital to see my consultant for the

> first time in three years now I have decided I do need

> to have surgery on my jaw.

>

> The first thing he said as I entered his office was,

> " I don't know if you'll remember me, three years is a

> long time! "

> " Of COURSE I remember you! " I replied.

> Mr Harper is the wonderful man who, when I was having

> a nervous breakdown over looking like a freak when I

> first saw him, said " Mira, you're a good-looking,

> healthy, young woman. This isn't as bad as you make

> out! " And with those words I immediately felt 100%

> better.

>

> Sadly now I can't avoid the inevitable any longer and

> it looks like I'll have to go for braces and then

> surgery. Today they took X-rays of my jaw and booked

> me in at the surgeon/consultant/orthodontist clinic in

> September. This is where you have all THREE

> specialists all peering down your mouth! It's enough

> to make you floss for life.

>

> So today was the first " official " step on my jaw

> journey. Next update in September!