Orthodontist / surgeon consult (UK)

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Hey yall! Just a quick update of my latest

appointment!!

Hope you're all surviving out there xxx

Another appointment with the consultant and also the

surgeon this time. Mr Harper (consultant) was as

gorgeous as usual

http://www.bda.org/about/mapsection.cfm?sbid=77 " but

it doesn't do him NEARLY enough justice also I met Mr

Tomlin who will be my surgeon.

After some discussion and looking at my teefs we

decided that the course of action would be to go for

the surgery - this will involve at least 18 months in

braces and then an operation on either just my bottom

or both jaws. After the op, you're tightly banded for

around 4 to 6 weeks and are pretty much on liquids I

guess then you wear braces for around six months, then

they come off. We don't have a splint as such,

something they call a wafer.

I have to go back to the hospital for more photos,

dental moulds, and listen to this, so they can INJECT

ME WITH RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES and scan my bones!! They

need to see if my jaw is still growing or whether the

movement has stopped so they can make the relevant

operating decisions. The injection is going to happen

on Thursday, followed by the photos so I bet I look

pale in them! You can see info and pictures about bone

scans http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~dirt/museum/p4-129.html

here

I go back to see Mr Harper on 10th October for more

consults and moulds. I think this would all be so much

more of a drag if I didn't have him!