Metal Mouth Message Board

I don't feel comfortable going back to the oral surgeon's office. Long story short-my oral surgeon was ill and was unable to perform the surgery and one of the other doctors from his office did the surgery. The oral surgeon was "out of network" with Blue Cross so I had to pay everything up...

No one has any experience with a chin implant?

I had my lower jaw advancement and genioplasty a year and half ago. I meet with a plastic surgeon about some facial procedures and he felt that my chin is still weak and I would benefit from a chin implant. I am a little hestitant about it, mostly because my chin and lower lip never regained their f...

First a little backgroud info: I had lower advancement and genioplasty 9 months ago, and my braces have been off for 3 months. I have since had a positioner and now have invisable retainers. After surgery I had some mouth opening problems and I did physical therapy for 2 months. With physical therap...

) Did you stay overnight in the hospital? If you did was it planned? If you went home....how long total were you in the hospital? Did you feel ready to go home? One night pre-planned. Arrived at 7:15 for 9:30 am surgery, left the following day at 9:45 am. I definiately wanted to go home, nurses neve...

I felt very ill for the first couple days after lower jaw surgery. My surgeon wrote me a prescription for an anti-nausea pill called Promethazine and he said I could stop taking the liquid antibiotics. This pill took away the nausea and I felt alot better. My surgeon told me that I should of told hi...

I had lower jaw surgery & chin done about 7 weeks ago. Lower lip and chin are still very numb, my doctor says thats normal and I should not be concerned.

This is my first post here, but lurking for quite sometime. I had braces and retainers before, but developed TMJ symptoms two years ago that never went away. I wore a MORA mouth splint made by my dentist for a year (cost $2,300) and got braces this past January and I will be having upper and lower j...