Im confused about plates and screws

[Guest guest]

I have plates and screws in place in my jaw, after reading some posts

it seems like if you have plates and screws you dont get rubberbands

or are wired shut? so sometimes when they operate do they not use

plates and screws? I thought they always did!!

im wired shut right now but my surgeon said probably only for a week,

i didnt realize when they operate they sometime dont use plates and

screws, so what do they do, put the jaw in the correct postion and

wire things shut and thats it?

[Guest guest]

Actually, there is a type of lower jaw surgery which requires the jaw

to be wired shut. It is an I.V.R.O. or IntraOral Vertical Ramus

Osteotomy and it can only be done for mandibular set-back. It isn't

used nearly as much as the BSSO, because the BSSO can be used for both

set-back and advancement. The IVRO has less of a chance of disturbing

the major nerve that runs thru the mandible (that nerve is known as

the Inferior Alveolar Nerve or IAN), because the incision is made

farther back which in turn results in little or no numbness issues. I

don't believe that the IVRO uses plates and screws, but the mandible

is probably stabilized by some type of internal wiring, as well as

wiring the mouth shut. The reason why I know a little bit about this

is because an oral surgeon that I went to for a surgery consult back

in the early 1980's wanted to do the IVRO on me, but when he told me

that I would have my jaws wired shut for six to eight weeks, I decided

not to have the surgery. ~~~~ Diane (Idaho)

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> I have plates and screws in place in my jaw, after reading some

posts

> it seems like if you have plates and screws you dont get rubberbands

> or are wired shut? so sometimes when they operate do they not use

> plates and screws? I thought they always did!!

>

> im wired shut right now but my surgeon said probably only for a

week,

> i didnt realize when they operate they sometime dont use plates and

> screws, so what do they do, put the jaw in the correct postion and

> wire things shut and thats it?

>