jaw realignment

xxvickixx

Oh I had a metal plate and my jaws were wired shut, I did loose a nice amount of weight though! It would me much nicer not to be wired shut, especially when having post op sickness (yuk!)

I have my before and afters as someone asked for them, will try and work out how to post again, sorry everyone else is going to be sick of the sight of me lol!

xxvickixx

Think this is it...
http://s581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/xxvickixx/

robnye

xxvickixx wrote: »

Think this is it...
http://s581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/xxvickixx/

your piccies look good.

are you happy with it now?

xxvickixx

Oh yes! It's really changed my life.

robnye

xxvickixx wrote: »

Oh yes! It's really changed my life.

even better then....

Leanne_Mck

I have had braces in now for nearly 2 years. Getting an operation in January because one side of my jaw is longer than the other which is making is offline and go to the side. They are cutting rite along, above my top jaw and tilting it slightly to make my top jaw straight and taking bone marrow from my hip and putting this into the right side of my jaw to bring my jaw back in line but are cutting through my neck as they need to try and miss a nerve (if the cut this I lose the feeling in my bottom lip and chin). I have spoke to the surgeon now 3 times and next its just my op! After speeking to the surgeon I am feeling alot more confident than I was. To fully recover can take 4months but I will be in Hospital for 4-5 nights and off work for 7-8 weeks. I will be bored when I am in house not moving much so will let you all know at the end of January lol! Good luck to every1 else that is having similar operations. x

hollypop

I was doing a Google search when I came across this topic, makes really interesting reading hearing everyone's stories and experiences. :money:so THANK YOU!

I have always had trouble eating, as only 2 of my teeth actually touch when i bite together. I always assumed this was just the way it was, until i joined a new dentist and she referred me to our local hospital first off to the restoration department, who said there wasn't much they could do so referred me to the orthodontic department.

The orthodontic department were so good with me, basically my option is to have fixed 'train track' braces for 18 months, then i will have the surgery to remove 6mm off my left hand side of my jaw then a further 6 months of braces followed by a retainer.

I was given over 3 months inbetween appointments to look through all the leaflets and information before going back with any questions and give them my decision.

I have decided to go ahead with this operation and braces, because to be able to eat 'normally' would be such a unburden to me.

Another option presented to me from my other half was to now claim through my private medical care, which is with AXA, however in their t's & c's it lists orthodontic work as 'cosmetic' so does not cover me to go privately, however I am not having it done for cosmetic reasons, so now not sure what to do.
I am on the NHS waiting list but it could be a long wait which is making me think the whole thing will just be dragged out even longer than the 2 years its going to take already.
I am 24, and don't really want to end up getting married with braces still on!

brook2jack

I have never known any orthodontics to have been claimable on any private insurance.

Moreover because it has to be closely aligned with your oral surgery work there is little point in doing ortho privately unless the oral surgery is private as well.

The other dentists may disagree but this type of proceedure I would prefer done in a NHS setting as they are far better set up in terms of intensive care etc.

charlies-aunt

Hi

Just wanted to say my daughter had her long lower jaw reduced and had radical surgery correct a significant facial deformity last year. She was bullied at school for her looks and for a speech impediment caused by the deformity so she was desperate to have the operation

Took 3 years of braces to get her teeth in the right position before the op and she wore the braces for six months afterwards with elastics to hold her top and bottom jaw in alignment - she now wears a retainer at night to keep her teeth in the right position.

The op was done on the NHS and the fortnight immediately following the op were very difficult - she was discharged from hospital the morning after the 8 hr op and nursed at home because there is less risk of infction at home v hospital(!!).,, not easy but we got through it...and she was very brave and never complained. There is NO PAIN in the mouth or jaw after the op . . . . but she did have some problems . . . mainly vomiting blood ingested during the operation, was very tired for many weeks and had difficulty drinking for the first few days

A year on - it has all been worth it - she looks 'normal' and can speak clearly.... and it has done her self esteem a power of good.

Its not an operation to be considered lightly but the results for my daughter have been outstanding and life changing.

If you are contemplating the operation - please pm if you want to ask any questions - happy to help

loulou123

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Hi

Just wanted to say my daughter had her long lower jaw reduced and had radical surgery correct a significant facial deformity last year. She was bullied at school for her looks and for a speech impediment caused by the deformity so she was desperate to have the operation

Took 3 years of braces to get her teeth in the right position before the op and she wore the braces for six months afterwards with elastics to hold her top and bottom jaw in alignment - she now wears a retainer at night to keep her teeth in the right position.

The op was done on the NHS and the fortnight immediately following the op were very difficult - she was discharged from hospital the morning after the 8 hr op and nursed at home because there is less risk of infction at home v hospital(!!).,, not easy but we got through it...and she was very brave and never complained. There is NO PAIN in the mouth or jaw after the op . . . . but she did have some problems . . . mainly vomiting blood ingested during the operation, was very tired for many weeks and had difficulty drinking for the first few days

A year on - it has all been worth it - she looks 'normal' and can speak clearly.... and it has done her self esteem a power of good.

Its not an operation to be considered lightly but the results for my daughter have been outstanding and life changing.

If you are contemplating the operation - please pm if you want to ask any questions - happy to help

Just to give people a different point of view (as am sure everyone has very different results immediately following the op)
Cant believe they sent your daughter home next morning :eek: i was in high dependancy from immediately after the op, until the next afternoon (but even my surgeon, who has done hundreds of similar ops was surprised by the degree of swelling i had), i was then transferred to the normal surgical ward, where i spent the next night, by the third day tho i REALLY wanted to go home, so ahem, discharged myself against medical advice!

I wasnt sick at all, tho did feel very sick when i 1st woke up, i told them this and was given something which stopped it, i also had pain immediately in one side of my jaw (was given morphine for this in the high dependancy ward) i was drinking with an hour or two (through a baby sipper cup,) managed to get myself to the toliet in the night, tho did need some help due to the morphine and fact i had so many tubes connected to me. When my family were brought in (as soon as i was out of recovery) i was chatting to them-which surprised them as they thought they'd get some peace

Next morning i "ate" some very very milky weetabix.

I did however have some complications, in recovery my mouth starting hemorraging which was very very scary (tho this was actually coming from the extraction site of my wisdom tooth and nothing to do with the actual jaw op.) I also got an infection around one of the plates that slowed my recovery.

Overall im glad i had it done, as for me it wasnt about the cosmetic benefits but being able to eat normally and noy have so many problems with my teeth etc. Any questions please feel free to ask.