Re: Splint

[Guest guest]

> When do you usually get your splint and do all patients have to have

> them? You get your splint while your in surgery and for the most

part, I believe that most say in about 3 weeks. Yes, they are hard to

get used to but you do. You just feel like you've got a mouth full.

Hope this helps. Tonya post-op upper and lower 7

days.

[Guest guest]

All patients have a splint during surgery, as far as I know, but not

all have them post-op. My surgeon told me that if he had to segment my

upper jaw, I'd have the splint post-op. If he didn't have to segment,

then he'd just throw it away post-op.

That doesn't necessarily mean that you won't have a splint if your

upper jaw isn't segmented, though. Some surgeons just prefer to have

them in post-op.

It was made at my final pre-op visit, and I'm told it was just a thin

wafer.

Hope that helps,

> When do you usually get your splint and do all patients have to have

> them?

[Guest guest]

My daughter has to wear her splint for 6 weeks.

Anita

Re: Splint

> When do you usually get your splint and do all patients have to have

> them? You get your splint while your in surgery and for the most

part, I believe that most say in about 3 weeks. Yes, they are hard to

get used to but you do. You just feel like you've got a mouth full.

Hope this helps. Tonya post-op upper and lower 7

days.

[Guest guest]

Well for me, I had lower jaw advancement only..but I have to wear my

splint for 4 weeks while I am wired shut. Then, for 2 more weeks I

will be banded shut but no splint.