Metal Mouth Message Board

Audra wrote:I'll see if I can find some.

Audra, is this really you ?

cvn wrote:I had to wait a week for a shower after double jaw surgery. It sucked. My hair was gross! I was allowed to take baths but it just wasn't the same!

Why a week cvn ?, everybody here say just 1-2 days...

Not sure about MSDO, but SARPE is a simple surgery, and still 2 days ???, wow. I fear it will be almost a week for double jaw surgery....

Weird question, I know, but for some reason it troubles me (hate to look and smell like a mess for days, especially since people will come to visit).

Our son is having surgery on July 26th - 3 days after his 13th birthday. I am so incredibly nervous for him. He will have both upper and lower jaw plus moving the chin forward. We have a series of classes about it coming up through Kaiser. In the meantime, I'm reading as much as I can. I'm glad to ...

My operation is scheduled for July 19th. By then I'll be 1.5 years in braces. I'm going to go through double jaw surgery (to correct underbite of about 9mm). The procedure will be done using one of the following two options: 1. Lefort1+BSSO+Genio, 2. Lefort1 + Segmental mandibular osteotomy. My surg...

Why am I the only one you ask to post pics? If I wanted to post full face pics I would. Obviously I don't want to. Since you went through a similar procedure to the one I'm going to go through (double jaw surgery to fix underbite). I wasn't aware that the reason is shyness (which is totally underst...

Audra, everybody at work tell you how wonderful you look. Why won't you let us enjoy the beauty with some before/after pics ?

well there is general anesthesia and there is a local anesthesia. They use both. When you wake up the local anesthesia keep working and normally they keep you under it but the general wear off. ( it took almost 2 days for the local anesthesia to wear off) Example if i would wake up after the operat...

But I don't understand, at this point after surgery you are supposed to be drugged enough not to feel the crushed bones and teared flesh in your face, so how on earth can you feel the pain coming from pee touching your scratched urethra ?, I was under the impression the drugs they use work systemica...

I've read a blog of someone who said that after they took the catheter out, the first time he had to pee was very painful, or in his own words: "The pain I experienced while trying to pee for the first time after that surgery was like nothing I’ve ever experienced (and remember, I once shattere...

dvdrdiscs wrote:I e-mailed my surgeon and he said no can do Any surgery will require all gaps closed! Damn it.

You can inform your surgeon that teeth don't lose the ability to move after surgery. If everything is ready for surgery, apart from the gap from pre-molar extractions, there is no need to wait.

Your lower jaw might protrude just 2mm now, but your upper teeth probably protrude forward to compensate, so actually your lower jaw protrude much more. During pre-surgery orthodontics, your upper teeth will be brought backward, and your problem will become worse. I started too with just 2mm lower ...

Your lower jaw might protrude just 2mm now, but your upper teeth probably protrude forward to compensate, so actually your lower jaw protrude much more. During pre-surgery orthodontics, your upper teeth will be brought backward, and your problem will become worse. I started too with just 2mm lower j...

Hey guys. I just got home like 2 hours ago. My surgery started at 8am yesterday and lasted 4 hours. Everything went well according to the doctors. I woke up around 12:30, feeling no pain and overall much better than I expected. Although my arm was killing me, probably from the position it was layin...