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So I'm almost 2 months post surgery and it seems like my bite is better on the right side than the left. Everything seems to connect on the right but there is a tiny space on the left. There does seem to be a bit more swelling on that side still so maybe that's it? Has anyone else experienced this?

Yay for losing screws! Although that does limit your ability to blend in to the bionic half people that take over the world some day... 😂 I am realizing how exhausting re-learning to chew is. It's not so much that it hurts. But it feels weird. And I'm just not accustomed to my teeth actually fitting...

Luckily for me it should just be on one tooth. My front two top teeth were angled and now that it's all straightened out, the gum on the right side is noticeably lower than the left. A girl I work with weirdly just had her entire gumline raised yesterday. She told me she was under anesthesia for it....

Puna after 4 days I was not ready for my waterpik yet. I was still struggling to just use my toddler toothbrush at that point. I think I started using my waterpik again at about week 2 on low and with one of the brush attachments. I feel like the bristles made it a bit gentler. Facial massage has be...

I had my annual dental cleaning/exam at my normal dentist's office today. Cleaning went about how I expected it would, pretty uneventful except when she was near my incisions then hurt like a b. Then the dentist comes in, reads my chart: Him: So you had oral surgery in conjunction with orthodontic c...

1. I initially got braces because I had pretty severe overcrowding but too and bottom. I had an overbite and a slight crossbite. 2. So my bottom teeth seemed to straighten out for the most part after about 4 months. My top took longer because of answer #3. 3. I had to have surgery to put in an expan...

I have had my metal braces for a little under 2 years. For the most part the only times adults bring them up is if they are interested in getting some themselves or if I bring them up. Little kids will ask about them but those are generally really funny conversations that leave you with a little ego...

I was still pretty swollen at one month. I just hit 7 weeks and the swelling is at a point the only people who would even half think that something is off are myself, because I spend way to much time looking at my own face, and people with a medical degree. Everyone else tells me I'm crazy and look ...

runrabbitrun wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 5:35 pm

I'll be headed back to the office tomorrow. I'm more nervous than I expected. Hopefully, I can refrain from drooling all over myself.

Hope the first day back went well!

The flight was great. I felt the pressure change a bit in my nose. Kinda felt like air bubbles. And one little place on the left side of my jaw. I laughed because suddenly I'm that old lady that can tell the weather based on how my creaky old bones feel. The town I went to had some crazy pollution g...

Haha the furry tongue thing was so gross. I only had it very mild. But it was what made me be so stubborn about using my normal electric toothbrush probably way sooner than I should have. I could barely open wide enough to get it in sideways. But I was not having that grossness in my mouth. My toddl...

How is your guy's swelling going? I think in the next week I'll be back to "normal." The only real edema I see left is on either side of my nose/upper lip, and that's going away quickly now. Swelling is mostly down. Just my chin is still puffy and uncomfortable. And it fluctuates day to d...

Again because this is surgery #2 for me I probably push things a bit farther than I should. But things I have been able to eat decently well the last couple days have all been pretty soft still. My favorite has been gnocchi with crumbled Italian sausage and goat cheese. I tried a quesadilla with a f...

Puna that sounds terrible. I mean great that you had the energy to spend the day out and about. But that split life seems way worse than even the expander I had after SARPE. But I understand the ketchup/mustard struggle well. That was life right after this surgery. Now if someone is snooping through...

The guy that asked about the lisp I call Joy from Inside Out. He has never had a mean spirited or hateful thought in his life. So when he said that it was a genuine question for him. Then he felt horrible when I told him it was my first day back after face surgery. I couldn't hold a grudge on that o...