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I have insurance from my mothers work benifits (covers family until they are 25 years and im 21) and My university coverage. As far as I know my OS submitted those 2 insurance forms and Ohip covered the majority of everything else ( besides ortho) though, my stay in the hospital was only overnight.....

where do you live?
Im in Ontario and our coverage (OHIP) covered everything except orthodontics and I guess some of the post op checkups.

Hi Jill. Wow, what a coincidence. Im wired too, on Wednesday it will be 4 weeks since my surgery and a couple more weeks of being wired shut for me as well. I only had a lower jaw surgery to fix my underbite and cross bite. What did you have done?

the other day I saw someone eating a chocolate bar and I desperately felt like one too. however, I'm also wired shut so I cant get pudding or anything thicker then soup through. My dad bought me these "milkshakes" by Nestle (they're more like flavored chocolate milk) that actually taste li...

Iv read articles that mention only long term use at the maximum dose/day can upset healing processes. But if your taking that much ibuprofen, I would think you'd have some serious problems that Advil alone couldn't help. As far as I'm concerned no one here should worry about reversing the healing pr...

are you having rigid fixation? plates and screws? then unless something goes wrong, ie- bad bone break, you shouldnt need to be wired. i would talk to him if youre that nervous about it. Not necessarily. I had my surgery on July 2nd, though I only had my lower jaw done, Iam pretty much wired shut. ...

I had a setback last wednesday, I was told he moved my jaw back 9 mm. Im not exactly sure what the procedure was called...though I am wired shut, but its not that bad, the most annoying thing is being constantly hungry. In my OP, my OS made 2 cuts right infront of each ramus and moved the bone back,...

I got a call from them yesterday...well, not me but my sister considering I not making a habit of picking up the phone for a bit, but I orders some zip-n-sqeeze stuff about 2 weeks ago. We called them about a week ago and they called to tell us that they sent the products but forgot to put the inter...

yeah, he told us. plus there was no sign of any on the xray he should us. I think he would have said something if he had, but he is a bit scatter brained...excellent surgeon, but scatter brained. but no wires either, just bands, how odd.

I think it was the IVRO considering Im tightly banded with no screws or plates or anything. I think he said this one takes longer to heal, but he thought it was the best for my case... But thanks alot for your quick reponse!!

Im curious to know what procedure my OS did, if anyone knows,awesome, if not ill asl my OS next week when I see him. umm ok as far as I know the cosent said something like a bilateral something something...and he made cut near where my wisdom teeth were ad kinda move my bottom jaw back (I was gettin...

I have never noticed how many food commercials there are on TV. God I feel like a pizza....and its only been three days!! insanity!

hey! yeah, Im wired shut, well sorta. banded shut I guess would be ore appropriate considering Its also just guding elastics. But yeah, they're not too bad. Although I heard that the 3rd day was the worst, iv gotten through th eblunt of it fairly well. I saw my OS this orning and he said I was doing...

Finally, after some hassle and pushed back dates I got the surgury done. and, hopefully Im not speaking too soon, but im not feeling too badly. When my surgeon told me the surgury would be less painful then having my wisdom teth out I very much doubted him there, but at this point Id agree. its just...

thats good to know. Although I JUST learned that my OS is very ill and wont be doing my surgury....which sucks ALOT cause he was the best in, what I was told, the county... So Ill have some other Doctor and it might not even be when he scheduled it!!! It has to be soon so I can get better and go to ...