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Be inventive with your food, liquidise everything. Get your mum to make a roast and get her to liquidise the gravy or Primula cheese, squirt that in your mouth and suck it in through your teeth! Rusks are nice liquidised with milk. All soups, milkshakes, just whatever you can liquidise. That's what ...

Carly, that sounds awful, poor you. The antibiotics I was on were fine on my stomach. I was worried because my stomach is not good anyway but I had no problems, just as well as I was on them for 5 months. I really hope this next course of antibiotics clears it up for you. I am getting pain and some ...

Welcome back! You are looking really good, not too bad swelling wise at all. I know it is early but are you pleased with it so far? You are out really quickly, I thought you'd be in longer. Which room were you in at the Southern? I was away round at the end near the lifts, looking out onto the carpa...

I had both jaws done, a bimax plus genioplasty and long term I have no numbness at all, everything normal so all of you hang in there, it can all return to normal given time. Also just had maxilla plates out and had numbness of my right nostril, top lip and teeth/gum but that is all nearly back to n...

Like Meryaten says it will probably depend on what you are having done. I had both jaws done and don't remember any bleeding from inside the mouth at all. I had 2 tubes, one down each nostril to keep my nose open with all the swelling but also to suck out any snot or blood that was down there but I ...

Whitelurcher, I hope yours stays as it is and doesn't move anymore so you don't need to go through it again! What do you mean by wonky face? Do you feel it has changed other areas of your face? Because I thought that, my nose looked squint for example afterwards! Then over the years I look different...

Whitelurcher, I looked at your pics, it doesn't look too bad although not as you'd hoped of course. Mine is much worse although it has gradually gotten worse over the years. I have contact between two molars on the right side and one on the back left and that is it now. The gap between my lower jaw ...

Meryaten, yes I thought you had probably quoted that artcle before, you do such good research! It is very interesting going through it all, I'm going to ask all about this when I go back and hopefully the original OS will be able to shed some light on my particular relapse. Whitelurcher, is your bit...

I had bookmarked this article whilst researching this subject a few weeks ago and have just got round to reading it. It would seem to suggest that growth is not the primary factor in relapse in my type of surgery. I thought I'd had bimaxillary surgery to correct my bad class III malocclusion which i...

The OS I am seeing this time is one of the top in this field and world renowned so I would trust him totally and to be honest I could ask a few more of them and I doubt I'd get a straight answer! Literally he is like the head guy here. None of them like to answer these questions. He kind of side ste...

I also ate baby food after my big op. I had rusks with milk all liquidised! Actually you can liquidise most anything, I got quite inventive!

In my 30 odd years attending oral surgery clinics I have never known an OS to answer a question if he/she can get out of it!!!! Trying to pin down answers is near impossible and you end up not knowing any more than when you first went in! Do they train them in this????? :lol: :roll: If you throw in ...

I have experience of infection around the maxilla plates. What you describe is similar to my symptoms. Basically I had all maxilla plates removed after surgery due to problems. The first about a year or so after surgery and then now 18 years post surgery I developed a serious infection under the rig...

Yes that is the same place, I used to go and get my ortho treatment there and now I go back there to see the Prof too. Oral surgery clinic is awful to wait in, I was there for 3 hours once!!!!

Take your mobile phone to the Southern General, I was in 3 weeks ago and they have one pay phone for Ward 62 and that is it. Half the time someone else has got it or it is stuffed full of coins and you can't use it. You can, despite what they say in your wee leaflet, use the mobile in your ward in y...