Metal Mouth Message Board

Jamie, i loved your blog, so honest and so helpful. im just interested, because I have had sarpe but it hasnt corrected my asymmetry, i am turning 40 soon so i dont want to do jaw surgery, do you think you wouldve been happy only with the sarpe because you already looked great after sarpe i thought,...

Well an update from me. Not to scare anyone else considering sarpe, but for me what had been thought to be venous bleeding jnfact ended up being a pseudo aneurysm of the internal maxillary artery which had been injured at the time of surgery. Very rare. I had it coiled angiographically a week after ...

sorry smiley,
they dont believe it works in adults,
I shouldve been clear,
in young people, certainly,
best wishes

now day 4 post op
still in agony
cant open mouth
cant eat
lost so much weight
still coughing up blood
pain lt ear and hugely swollen left cheeek
cant get out of bed

this is how i look day 4!!! post sarpe oh cant post photo hugely hugely swollen hard hematoma left cheek black eyes bilaterally in a lot of pain my three year old daughter cried when she saw me and my one year old son not much better a terrible experience and my orhodontist wont see me, he delegates...

it seems everyone doing much better than me
im 39
day 3 post sarpe
still agony in my left tmj
had to go back to theater bleeding pterygoid plexus
spent two nights in intensive care unit
regretting the whole idea
cant open mouth
anyone else anything like this

I’m currently in intensive care unit after my sarpe. Had pterygoid venous bleeding and back to theatre. I’m feeling terrible. Swelling horrendous. And I’ve been advised at least two weeks off work.

But he’s at Randwick so may not be convenient.

Dr derek Mahoney

My orthodontist who is very well respected and my two surgeons said they don’t believe this works (?) have said sarpe is the way to go for me.