Metal Mouth Message Board

For me, surgery provided modest benefits at a modest cost. The benefits were a better bite, it's easier to bite off food like pizza or noodles, it will reduce wear on my teeth, and it looks better. The costs were the stress of spending a day in the hospital and the difficulty of the recovery. For me...

I had a BSSO with about a 1cm advancement (no genioplasty) in March. It was not bad. Sent home about 4 hours after coming up from anesthesia, and was completely exhausted: I could not consistently keep my eyes open for another 12 hours or so. By the second day, though, I was fine to walk the dog, dr...

I took one week off after my BSSO. The only difficulty in returning was that I had a splint in for two weeks, so I talked kinda funny for the first week back at work (which included teaching two classes, which was interesting). My energy levels were back to normal as soon as I figured out how to get...

thisisme, you should be able to shower whenever you want. The external dressings are designed to fall off after a few days of soap and water, you don't need to keep them dry or anything (in fact, if you want them to come off eventually, you need to get them wet). I used one of those poofy things to ...

This looks like a helpful thread, but I just wanted to point out that I had outpatient BSSO surgery and didn't really do anything out of the ordinary to prepare beyond making sure I had orange juice, ice cream, and yogurt on hand at home, and I didn't end up lacking anything important. Also, the hos...

Of course it's cosmetic! But it's also for functional reasons, getting a better bite, having more consistent contact between top and bottom teeth, in some cases reducing the risk of sleep apnea and TMJ, and so on. I've generally explained it by saying that the surgery is to properly line up my two s...

I taught a 75-minute class this morning, 8 days post-surgery. It was... interesting, as I have quite the speech impediment from the splint. I don't think I'd do a job interview or anything with a splint in, but I can communicate perfectly well, albeit a little oddly. Also, in a major breakthrough on...

I cooked meat loaf last night; it tasted really good, but was bordering on being too difficult to eat to be worth it... I got through about 1.5 thinly sliced pieces before I was feeling full and tired of the food. Still, that's probably the most protein I've had since the surgery (not good), and I t...

dtdtdt, I have some numbness, but I got lucky in that I seem to have much less numbness than is normal. My lower lip and right chin have full feeling, and my left chin is only partially numb, let's say in the range of 40-60% of normal feeling (and even there, I think it's gotten better since the ope...

dtdtdt, congrats on being done. I've felt quite hungry at times too, but today I've felt full most of the day. I made blueberry pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast (used the fork to jam them through narrow opening between teeth, mash into roof of mouth, swallow), and went to Whole Foods to get s...

So I had BSSO surgery on Monday March 14 and thought I would post about my experience. Overall, I'm very happy with how my recovery is going. I've had almost no pain, took only one dose of the narcotic pain killer they gave me and that was more to help sleep, and now I'm on only ibuprofen. The numbn...

I got my braces on during an 11am appointment, then taught a class at 2pm. I do not think your caution is warranted regarding braces. I've not had any teeth pulled, though. Good luck!

If your mouth hurts, use the wax.

That said, I've never had a need for the stuff. Guess I got lucky.

I have an overbite which is comparable to yours... I can still bite down a couple more millimeters in the bottom photo. The teeth are definitely straighter, but with braces on, it's hard to say about my smile... they're certainly the first thing I notice! Anyway, the top front teeth moved very quick...

I think my teeth had some similarities to yours (front teeth angled in, neighboring teeth twisted). Here's a before pic and an after 9 months of braces pic. I don't expect the overbite to be fixed much with braces, though there is a possibility I will have jaw surgery to move my lower jaw forward, a...