Metal Mouth Message Board

I recently had my lower jaw moved forward and could have had a genioplasty but after a good discussion with both my orthodontist and surgeon I agreed with them that it wasn't necessary and, despite it is early days, I am very happy with my decision. I have found that you cannot be objective about yo...

My swelling has gone down a lot now and is not that visible unless you have really close look. My bottom lip is still quite swollen and inside my mouth is quite crowded with swollen flesh still. I'm dutifully wearing the elastics although when I change them for fresh ones the discomfort comes back a...

I feel for you Luke - the NHS does take it's own sweet time (2+ year on the waiting list). Now you have an actual date on a letter hopefully you will be good to go. Have you had a "work up" date yet? For the record I have actually had my braces on now for over 2 years (six months more than...

Thanks sauerkraut that's interesting and I'll give that a go. Since I have cut out the mouthwash I have been able to eat by swallowing on one side of my mouth/throat. Hopefully the other side will start to get less inflammed (that's a nasty chemical methinks)

Good luck with the surgery suzanna I had a real problem with the mouthwash the hospital gave me. It disagreed with me and made swallowing excruatingly painful, and it took me a couple of days to work out the source of the problem and why I could eat in the morning but by lunchtime, after dutifully f...

Hey canthandlethetooth, Congrats on your surgery! I had to laugh at your Churchill dog comparison!! I thought looked like Monica from Friends when they did the flashbacks to when she was fat... But the Churchill dog is a better one! I am NHS as well - where are you? I had my surgery at St John's in...

@suzanna - thanks, Only in the hospital for one night and glad to be out. Yesterday and today are tough days (3rd and 4th day from my surgery date) - the inside of my mouth is very sore but as far as I can make out just sore not infected. I've tried to be as consistent as possible with oral hygenien...

Hi to everyone on this thread. I had lower jaw advancement 2 days ago on the NHS so currently very swollen but apart from that feel pretty much OK. I am a 41 year old male so this this quite a big step for me. I don't frequent this board much mainly because I don't like to read too much information ...

Here's what I did for an overbite/recessive jaw I paid for an appointment at Total Orthodontics. The orthodontist there measured me and referred me to the maxo department at a quite well renowed hospital and after a consult there I was put on the waiting list and have since had my surgery. A couple ...

Thanks very much!

For those interested in braces and orthognathic surgery on the NHS here is my blog

http://theorthodonticsexperience.blogspot.com/

Thanks