<p>Am I mistaken or are there many CC kids who underwent oral surgery recently?
May I ask how they are doing?</p>
<p>Darling daughter is doing great . She went to the Doc on Tuesday and he kept the rubber bands off again (hurray!). Says she is healing nicely. I expect that she would say numbness is the biggest factor now as the swelling she has will probably persist like this for months. The occasional drool is cause for great worry as is the prospect of summer band kicking in (in about 3 and a half weeks) with a numb lower lip. But she has been able to do her own workout schedule and volunteer 4 hrs. a day at the hospital. We are definitely on the mend. We visit the ortho in two weeks to start the fine tuning. We couldn’t be more pleased. Well ,we could be, but it wouldn’t be realistic. That’s fairly major surgery.</p>
<p>Cur,</p>
<p>Thrilled to hear that your dd is on the mend!! Hope the numbness abates soon!</p>
<p>There does seem to be several of us with kids that had jaw surgery. My D had hers May 26th so we are doing pretty well. Backhandgrip, how is your son. When I saw he went to live 8 I felt he must be doing okay. My D still wears rubberbands but removes them twice a day to “exercise”, opens and closes mouth etc. Still is not allowed to eat unblended food which is what she craves, but should be able to within the next two weeks. She does look different, rounder face (she used to have a prominent chin) I think she looks younger but you don’t tell that to a 17 year old :)</p>
<p>Marite, my Daughter will also be having the surgery on July 29, school starts August 29. I am SO glad to hear the reports from others. I am wondering, however, if any of your children had to have prothestic jaw implants? This is something we are getting conflicting advice on for my daughter — surgeon says it’s necessary, orthodontist says he wouldn’t recommend it. If we go that route, would delay surgery until at least Christmas which we definitely don’t want to do (not to mention subjecting a 17 year old to a life with an implant that may or may not be necessary!) So, if anyone had or considered this, please let me know.</p>
<p>And, I would love to hear more about the results — Unlike MomZ’s daughter, our D. will be going from no chin to very prominent chin (at least that’s what she thinks after seeing the computer pix). Any reassurances would be VERY VERY welcome. Also, any advice or tips for coping, especially ideas for dealing with the no solid food issue would be terrific!</p>
<p>carolyn, D did very well. Almost so well I feel guilty posting. First five days , well-steel yourself. It ain’t pretty. Check out my posts from the 16-21 of June. I gave a pretty decent account. Since then -nothing but roses. She’s a lucky and even more beautiful girl with a very relieved dad.</p>
<p>Carolyn, the prosthetic jaw is for ?TMJ? or to allow her jaw to come much further forward??</p>
<p>No thanks to the OP: Neither D nor myself wants her to have to endure the molar removals, but we’ve been warned by dentist to do this. Guess it’s much more unpleasant to wait until —God forbid–Christmas break.</p>
<p>Guess I’d better make that Necessary Evil appointment. (And yes, I think the “coincidence” is that the docs know what’s coming & want this taken care of preferably before college begins, or at least before a new term.)</p>
<p>Yuck – to the pain, the soft diet, AND the expense anticipated.</p>
<p>Oh, and BTW-I’m sure someone will come up with good science that what we gave her was wrong but… we found that she liked a product you can get online (or for twice the price at the GNC in the mall) called Weight Gainer 2200. It probably consists of ground up windshield glass and china white heroin and has been banned for ten years… but D enjoyed it more than any of the others (which she hated and threw away). 100 calories per fluid ounce when mixed with whole milk and tastes good,too. That’ll do it. You’ll recognize it when you see it. It has pictures of Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds on the label. Gee, those fellers are muscular, aren’t they? (JK, we get ESPN out here in the boonies,too.)</p>
<p>My D did not have to have jaw implants but she did get cheek implants. Without them her face would have looked sunken after her upper jaw was moved out. As for food, first 1 1/2 weeks she had to have a particle free diet due to her sutures. Imagine soups available at Trader Joes worked best. D liked the corn soup. Once she could have anything blended that’s just what we did. Chicken pot pie with some milk to thin it tasted pretty good. We even blended homemade spaghetti. Being a girl she has not worried about weight loss which stablelized at 3 weeks. She has gained a few pounds back since then probably due to all the milkshakes she is enjoying.</p>
<p>momz, we did chicken pot pies in the blender ,too! It wasn’t bad! D loved the reblended “crabmeat corn rice” soup from our favorite Chinese restaurant.</p>
<p>Oh, and D is also a girl but any weight she loses makes it less possible to play her position in basketball, and she wants to be ready for fall ball. When she stops playing for good her weight will probably naturally drop 20 pounds from her best playing weight. We have to pack it on so that by the end of the season there’s still some there, there. And she’s still outweighed by 30-40 pounds most nights. She loses about ten pounds during the season. She tries to drink at least one 8oz serving of some protein shake but most of them are intolerable. She ran a mile and a half this morning and did a quad, ab, and core routine with weights. She is sore , sore.</p>
<p>FrenchBaroque: the wisdom teeth removal is only tough for a day or two. Don’t worry! These guys are talking about MAJOR oral surgery involving split palates, jaws moved, etc. Much rougher on all involved!</p>
<p>FrenchBaroque:i just got my wisdom teeth surgically removed yesterday morning. it was quite a painless experience! the medication the doctor prescribed took care of much of the postoperative pain. it’s only been a day and i’m near fully recovered! i hope things go well for your d!</p>
<p>When my son had a last check up the week before starting college, his dentist said, hey these wisdom teeth had better come out pronto. The oral surgeon we saw, whose son was also a rising freshman, said, You want to kill this kid with social tension? No way you’re having this done now! </p>
<p>Since we are many many miles away, he had to find an oral surgeon in his college town and have the process done on his own half way through his first year.</p>
<p>It turned out that the kids were wonderful nurses and he did a painting of himself swollen and black and blue entitled Wisdom Lost. Recovery time was about two weeks, but it was truly a maturing experience.</p>
<p>Momrath, that is an amazing saga! I am so impressed with your son!!</p>
<p>Cangel, The prothesis is being discussed because her severe jaw misalignment has caused the hinges in both sides of her jaw to wear away. This would be a replacement for the hinges, not an implant of the entire jaw. We have been told that the wear on the hinges may problems down the line (she already has a great deal of pain in that area) and could potentially reverse the surgery benefits. However our orthodontist - who we trust - says that he would do the surgery and see what happens rather than rush to replace the jaw hinges. My daughter is not happy about how her face may change but is happy that she will finally be able to eat normally. She is looking forward to actually being able to bite into an apple or eat french bread without tearing it to shreds first.</p>
<p>As for wisdom teeth removal: if you’re having this done and you experience ANY renewed swelling after the initial swelling has subsided, go immediately to your surgeon as it is a sign of infection. That’s what happened to our daughter last fall – meaning she was back on a liquid diet for another two weeks! I know that is very much on her mind this time around. Cur, thanks for the chinese restaurant soup idea - that sounds good.</p>