Double HEADGEAR (It's HARD! to sleep) (Pics included)

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#1 Post by **jose** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:21 am

Last week I got my upper facebow installed... A Combi Headgear...

Yesterday I got my lower facebow installed... A Cervical Headgear...

It's hard to sleep.. It's impossible to sleep!

It's really hard... Do any of you have some advise... Also to talk it's alittle strange... But more then all I drool everywhere!!

I have to use both of them around 8/10 hrs a day... But it's so uncorfortable...

Any advise? Any help?

Here a couple of pictures:

Ciao

Jose

33/M/Italy/Full Metal GAC Innovation Brackets up and down from 3M/ Now also with full double headgear to keep molars in place!

#2 Post by **platinum** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:39 am

oh dear!

That's a hard core system! Well luckily you don't need to wear them 24/7!

Good luck!

#3 Post by **jennielee81** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:39 am

Oh you poor thing! AND Your poor lips!

I can only say that time will be your friend here. In time you should be able to sleep semi-normally with these.

Get a "feather alternative" pillow, they are very fluffy and the face bows should be able to have less resistance against them.

GOOD LUCK!!

#4 Post by **cowlypso** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:55 am

Oh boy! Can't wait until I get mine! I'm not sure exactly what kind I'm getting. But it's to hold my molars back, too. Just had my extractions, so when they start pulling things back towards the molars, we don't want the molars going anywhere. I didn't even consider that they would have to hold the lower molars back, too, since my big problem is an overjet. But I guess they might. I suppose I'll find out...

They make pillows with a little slit cut out in the middle to accomodate headgear. I usually sleep with a pillow that's designed for neck problems. It's a cylindrical pillow about 5 inches in diameter. When I had neck issues, I slept with it under my neck where it was supposed to be. But now I tend to sleep with just the top of my head resting on that, and the rest of my face free-floating. So maybe that's something to try. I've got that neck roll in the bottom edge of the pillowcase, and then a feather pillow filling up the rest, which I don't know if it really makes much of a difference or not.

Hopefully it will get better in a few days!

#5 Post by **HeadgearJoe** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:10 pm

hi , well you have the same setup i had for a week , however my lower jaw couldn't handle wearing my lower facebow, it was to much pressure on it , so a lipbumper was installed with extra heavy elastics pulling things, yea at first that is realy hard to sleep or anything else , the part i rember most of all is i DROOLED like a dog , that part was realy bad , i just have combination headgear to sleep in now , i still must have 10 hours a day , mine is just to maintain now , not any real movement , but i can still tell if i don't wear it even for one night my molors get sore , hoped i could have helped more , look me up any time will chat , hgjoe

#6 Post by **smile2006** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:29 pm

I have never seen headgear on the bottom teeth.....what does it do?

#7 Post by **Svensk Tiger** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:42 pm

Poor you, that looks tough going.

What is your ortho trying to achieve? (Sorry, I don't know much about headgear).

I really hope you manage to work out some sort of sleeping system soon, I really do feel for you.

Katie

#8 Post by **jose** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:07 am

Thanks to all for your Support.

Both headgear in my case are keeping my molars to go forward and keep them in place.

This night was always a disaster. No so much sleep... And a lot of drolling.

Impossible to drink without a straw.

Any advise to stop drolling?

Thanks again to everybody.

Jose

33/M/Italy/Full Metal Gac Innovation Brackets up and Down from 3 months/Double headgear from few days now

#9 Post by **cowlypso** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:49 pm

Hmm... I don't think I can help you with the drooling. I've been drooling for the past week, just because I got my premolars out. I'm not sure why that's making me drool, but it is. I think it adds character.

#10 Post by **HeadgearJoe** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:06 am

hi , nope there is not much you can do about the drooling , as i still drool at night , i just keep a wash cloth close at night an wipe wipe wipe in the night , it works for me , headgearjoe

#11 Post by **karebear46168** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:19 am

I don't even have my braces yet, so I don't have any advice...just support......I'm sure you will get used to them and find a way to sleep! I feel for you! keep a positive outlook and think how great your smile is going to be!

take care

#12 Post by **jose** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:01 pm

Still hard to sleep... But trying to get a solution...

Thanks for your help on thsi..

Ciao

Jose

#13 Post by **bbsadmin** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:52 pm

Do you know about the headgear pillow?

http://www.openspaces.com/

#14 Post by **hd2755** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:02 pm

what orthro in thier right mind would do this to a patient. that looks like torture. Man i feel for you how can you stand all of that? how, oh heck what um geez how do you even get ready in the morning? sleeping would be impossible.. you poor guy

that would make me leave the house with this

and i would be

at him.
if you need a ear i am here.

louis

#15 Post by **broochie** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:41 am

Oh, Jose, I really feel for you !
Unfortunately I can't offer you any advice on the headgear, since I don't have one, but about the drooling, I can tell you it goes away after a while. I was drooling like mad every night for about 2 months, then it stopped. I think that's what it takes your mouth to adjust to something new in it.
Hang in there, my friend!