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Not sure if any wanted to know how my jaw is wired. I couldn't find information about it before surgery.

Wow... kinda makes me glad that I have braces and will be getting surgical hooks

Yeah, screws hurt... especially when the barometric pressure drops. Owie!

eeshhh, so that's actually rigid fixation with banding then correct? Not actually wiring with braces.

Yep. Hurts like a you-know-what!

I feel so ugly. Normally I'm kinda cute.

Not that this is helpful, but that looks rather cool

Not sure I'd want them, though

crazybeautiful wrote:Not that this is helpful, but that looks rather cool

Not sure I'd want them, though

Thanks... I suppose it could be worse, right?

It could always be worse lol. Your teeth are looking nice though, once you get past the screws

Oh, that looks soooooo painful! :-O

OUCH!! I have braces and have surgical hooks that I attach bands to.

You have really nice, straight teeth.

Did you ever resolve the pain in the gums and teeth? Did the orajel work? I am noticing now that the swelling is going down I am feeling more. (not pain, but a little more discomfort) I think that nerves are starting to wake up.

Yeah that really does look painful! I didn't know they even did this as I thought braces were pretty much required for surgery; interesting to know.

Hey,

Congratulations for your surgery! Your teeth look amazing... they are so straight and white! You have lingual brackets?

I have to join crazybeautiful...
it does somewhat look cool, similar to a piercing or something...

but it looks painful...

you need to have the bands for much longer?

Get well, soon

Hey,

Congratulations for your surgery! Your teeth look amazing... they are so straight and white! You have lingual brackets?

I have to join crazybeautiful...
it does somewhat look cool, similar to a piercing or something...

but it looks painful...

you need to have the bands for much longer?

Get well, soon

I guess I should clarify. My surgery is a little bit different from most of yours. I actually fractured my condyle and fragmented the disk in the joint. So, basically I broke my jaw and dislocated it at the same time. My surgeon and I tried everything we could to avoid surgery. I did physical therapy, botox injections, splinting... nothing worked. So, what I had done was a modified condylotomy. What that means is the surgeon cut my mandible in half on the right side to move my jaw bone down by millimeters to create a gap in the joint so that I am not bone on bone. The rigid fixation is to act like a cast so my cut jaw bone fuses together.

Hope that makes sense.

Lacrosse Mom wrote:OUCH!! I have braces and have surgical hooks that I attach bands to.

You have really nice, straight teeth.

Did you ever resolve the pain in the gums and teeth? Did the orajel work? I am noticing now that the swelling is going down I am feeling more. (not pain, but a little more discomfort) I think that nerves are starting to wake up.

Thanks for the compliment on the teeth. I hate to admit it here, but I have never had braces.

Actually seems the pain in the gums and teeth are predominantly weather related. So I just take two Vicodin (instead of my normal half a Vicodin) and just sleep the storm away. I still have discomfort and pain but it's tolerable. The orajel worked for about 30 minutes. My gums still get swollen. The doctor said that if I am still have pain on Thursday August 6, he will switch my bands for looser ones but he said he won't do it before then because if my bite shifts even a little bit, my jaw will heal incorrectly and my bite will forever be messed up.