Hey! It's seven o'clock in the morning and I have just gotten up, so I thought I would explain why I am getting this surgery by telling you how I feel at the moment. When I wake up, I feel like I have something sitting on my head, and the pressure is pretty big. When I get up and walk around I have a headache in the sides of my jaws and in my temples, but that usually goes away after a while. It is really quite painful though, and annoying. When I bite down, I only use about two or three teeth, so it can be difficult and uncomfortable to eat. Before I started the braces, my bottom teeth were bending backwards, which caused trouble eating and some pain. So my mouth was pretty screwed up! But hopefully it will be fixed after my op-that's why I am having it anyway!
I have my next orthodontist appointment in two weeks when she will be (hopefully) taking moulds and sending them to the surgeon. I have to get an x ray as close as possible to this date, so I will probably get it the day before or something like that, to help her make the moulds. I have an appointment with the surgeon a week after that, where he will look at the moulds and say whether I am ready or not. If I am, he will brief me about the surgery again, and give me a date. My orthodontist seems confident that I will be ready by the time I go to the surgeon, so hopefully it goes well. After the surgeon appointment, I have another orthodontist appointment a couple of weeks later when she will hopefully just be tidying up and making it pretty for the surgeons to look at :). She might also put some hooks on, for the jaw to be wired up after surgery.
Sorry about the posts close together, but I had to give you all the info for you to get a clear picture. :)
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