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It's kind of hard to tell from just that pic alone, but to me I can't see how your upper jaw is recessed. How is your bite? If this is something you are worried about, go seek some opinions of oral surgeons in your area.

Thanks for the tip unleezno. After i ate those eggs I felt something stuck in there, so i swished some water around but it was still stuck. Tried to dislodge it with one of those orthodontic fuzzy picks and got most of it, but there were other particles I could see that I just couldn't reach. Guess ...

September 1st upper jaw surgery here (lefort 1 two piece expansion) Hope everyone is recovering ok and not hating their lives too badly. I still look like a chipmunk but the residual swelling that made my lower jaw balloon out near my lips seems to be gone at least. Skin next to my nose and upper li...

Haha thanks snapdresser, I said though that I tried using a waterpik, it kind of just shot the food debris further into the splint though.

So I just attempted to eat my first non liquid meal in the form of scrambled eggs about an hour ago. Checked in the mirror with a hand mirror angled up onto the roof of my mouth to see if anything got stuck in there, and theres a bunch of scrambled egg particles stuck in the splint. I tried to get t...