Metal Mouth Message Board

hey davide. sorry to hear about your recent frustrations. the doctor's approval of chewing food and the fact that he didn't put you in elastics after surgery seems a bit strange, but as far as the gaps and offset midline is concerned, i think much if not all of that can be fixed with orthodontics. i...

hi elspeth. i'll come at this from another angle. it's _really_ easy to become obsessed about something you don't like in your appearance. you see something in the mirror that doesn't look right and you fixate on that one thing... even though maybe .01% of the world would ever notice and think negat...

davide, great update. sounds like you're doing well... better than i was at 10 days. i really didn't emerge from the recovery fog until day 15 or so. keep it up. revolutionary/alison, you too sound great, and only two days post-op?! wow. don't even worry about looking in a mirror right now... it's g...

bitewonder, congrats! audra... i can tell you about the splint. i've had mine in for just over three weeks now. in two words: extremely annoying. ha! actually, the first two weeks i really wasn't focusing on it at all as i had 'other' things going on (soreness, discomfort, swelling, problems eating,...

davide, at least you're on the other side. things will get better with time. it's probably going to be rough for another week or so, but you'll get through it. as far as sleeping, do you have a recliner? i rented one for a month to help with my recovery and it really helped with sleeping. i'd typica...

you guys made it. congrats.

every day will be easier, i guarantee. time heals all wounds. i'll be three weeks post op on tuesday and i'm feeling great.

hi edgarp. i can't respond to your second question regarding being 'awake' other than to say i would imagine the chances are very slim. this would be a question for a professional. as for the needles, there were only two. the first was to take a blood sample for tests the day before surgery. the sec...

sara, really sorry to hear about your complications. my surgery went very smoothly and i had a tough enough time as it was with just the swelling and pain. hope everything heals quickly for you from this point on. i'm doing well. tuesday will be two weeks for me. the swelling has gone down for the m...

i don't know any of the details, bb, but yeah... the calcium supplements make sense. the only dietary change i made pre-surgery was to eat more. i packed on about 8 lbs in the month prior to surgery, and i've already lost that weight in the eight days since. my swelling has been going down... today ...

unless you're a really positive person you'll be freaked out and depressed by mirrors for about 2 months. This will pass. It can't be said enough times that it takes months to know what you're going to look like. I was distraught about my appearance for a long time but after 3 months I don't even r...

i need to force myself to eat. i think an ensure plus is on the menu for dinner tonight. my chin is all tingly as well... what a weird feeling. i hope i'm not in the low percentage of people who have permanent nerve damage, but i've accepted that as a possibility. i also hadn't envisioned recovery b...

hey bb.

how has your appetite been since the surgery? i've found i'm just not that hungry... i know i have to eat, but thoughts of food just don't enter my head.

how are you doing with numbness also? has that been bothering you?

thanks.

thanks for the responses, everyone. i had surgery this past tuesday for upper and lower plus genio. right now my face is way too swollen to even have a clue what it's going to look like in a few months. as far as numbness goes, pretty much the entire area below my lower lip is numb and then the tip ...

woke up this morning and my mouth was completely dry... apparently i've been breathing through my mouth when i sleep. i cleaned it out with a syringe and some water and then had some apple sauce and my amoxicillin. yesterday i felt extremely weak... almost like i couldn't get up out of a chair. i th...

hey audra. yeah, the lip thing is definitely no fun. i can't lick my lips and that combined with the really heavy swelling in the lower face area are making them feel really disgusting, tight, and sore. as for the medication, yeah, the nurses in the hospital said if i'm feeling pain at all hit the m...