Metal Mouth Message Board

I'm about five weeks since sarpe, and I HOPE I'm still a little swollen. My cheeks and upper lip look puffy to me. I he it isn't just the way my face looks now. Edited to add, I also had a small amount of numbness on my lip, in the corner. It's gotten progressively better since surgery. Has yours ch...

The 7mm I wrote included the turns done during the surgery. My ortho said that I just expanded more up front than in the back. I ended up expanding to 8.50 (including the expansion done during surgery) and had about an 11 mm gap. I'm a week out from stopping the expansion, and I'm now at about a 9.5...

Any thoughts on why I'm at 7.25mm on my RPE, but have a ten mm gap in between my front teeth? I did not have a gap before sarpe.

Surgery was this morning. Have most of my feeling back, except some of my teeth and on cheek and lip.
No nasal congestion so far, very happy about that.

OS expanded my 2mm in surgery. I have another 4-5 more to go, but only turning once a day, so it will take a few weeks.

Glad to hear it will become less cumbersome. It's ok now, as long as I'm not eating or speaking. Sheesh.

Good luck with your graft!

Expander in. Along with buttons on the lingual furthest back molar on the bottom, and a button on the furthest back molar on the top. The tooth on the top is very flared out, and he wants to keep it in check while I'm expanding. Oh, and I hate this expander. Drooling like crazy, can't swallow my spi...

Had my pretesting with the hospital today. Expander is placed tomorrow. Surgery next Tuesday.

Had my molar bands fitted today. New spacers put back in. Supposed to get my expander on the 16th. I'm kinda upset that the expander is going in a week before surgery, but they said that was the best they could do. Also, my ortho is apparently ordering some type of clear retainer thing for my bottom...

Sarpe surgery scheduled for nov 22. No thanksgiving for me! I'm currently in spacers until the rpe is placed a week before surgery.

Anyone else getting sawed up in November?