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I had my second jaw surgery on Wednesday, June 30. I had an IVRO to set my left TMJ back into the socket, and a 5 mm sliding genioplasty. The whole operation lasted 3 hours and the surgeon said that everything went well. I woke up with my chin wrapped in bandages and feeling a lot of nausea. I spent...

Hi Chicago, thanks for your concerns and your good wishes. What is exactly a TMJ specialist? Isn't a maxillofacial surgeon enough of a specialist to know whether there is a problem with the TMJ and how to fix it? I don't really know how the joint came out of the socket, but I've been reading about c...

Hey Alison, unfortunately I will really need another surgery to fix my TMJ. The second surgery is scheduled for June 30. I really hope that this is the last surgery, and that everything will be fine from then on. I'm glad to hear that you are doing fine, and that you are pleased with the final resul...

Hey Kimmi, I wish you the best of luck with your surgery tomorrow. I had bimaxillary surgery this past March 10. As you can expect, it's no fun at all, but you get through it. The first five days are the toughest, even because the swelling is at it's peak during that period, but it gets better with ...

Thank you very much Kaysha.
I hope all goes well with your surgery too.

On March 10 I had bimaxillary surgery to correct an overbite/overjet, and not too long after the operation my surgeon informed me that my TMJ on the left side came out of the socket, and that another surgery called IVRO is needed in order to put the joint back in its place. I'm already scheduled to ...

On June 30 I'm having IVRO (Intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy) on the left side of my mandible and genioplasty. I had bimaxillary surgery on March 10, but something went wrong with the left side of my mandible, and the TMJ came out of the socket. The IVRO is needed to put the joint back into the so...

I’m 55 days post-surgery, and my jaw saga is far from over still. During my last visit my surgeon told me that now my TMJ on the left side is out of the socket, and that I will need another surgery to fix it. He wants to do an IVRO (Intraoral Vertical Ramus Osteotomy), wire my mouth shut for 10 days...

I didn't have anybody to take care of me at all, so I handled everything by myself. All the help that I got was a ride to the hospital by a friend, and a ride back from the hospital by another friend. That's it! With my whole family living overseas, I had nobody to take care of me at home. It was to...

23 days post-op, and yesterday I saw my surgeon for the 4th time after surgery. He told me to wear elastics just at night , and to focus more on increasing ROM and jaw mobility. He told me to do exercises constantly because I have just 2cm ROM, and I need to increase it to at least 3cm by the time I...

23 days post-op, and I'm starting to worry about the weight loss. As of this morning I lost 23 pounds since surgery day. I'm having 7 meals every day, but so far I haven't been able to stop losing weight. Starting from today I'll start counting exactly how many calories I'm taking in, and see if I c...

At 3 weeks post-op, I've already lost 21 pounds. However I lost 5 of those pounds before surgery because of stress. I'm 5.11 and from 170 I'm down to 149 pounds and still counting. I'm also experiencing low energy levels because of the poor diet. However I found out that if I have my meals every two...

I saw my OS yesterday morning and he changed the configuration of my elastic bands to correct the midline asymmetry and a bite that looked like was shifting out of place. Within 24 hours my midlines are once again symmetrical to one another and the gaps between my arches on the side are already gett...

Hey guys, thanks for all the support and kind words. I called my surgeon's office this morning and I was told to go in tomorrow morning for an urgent visit. I was told to remove the elastic bands right away because the surgeon is now afraid that the configuration is wrong and that the bands are actu...

Hi Alison, thanks for the kind words, but it's kind of hard to just relax and stay positive. I'm actually growing angrier at my surgeon with every passing hour. Our attitutudes have been totally opposite throughout this whole ordeal as he was very cautious for the surgery and very careless for the r...