Welcome back everyone! The process underwent months prior to surgery It's been a while since my last post. Apologies it's been a hectic two months. FINALLY I am pleased to say I had double jaw surgery on the 12th of December 2017. I got my original surgery date when I attended joint clinic in August; this was supposed to have been November the 21st a week after my 21st birthday. However unfortunately it was cancelled because not enough appointments had been made prior to surgery to get everything in place for the life changing day. Therefore Leading up to surgery day I had a few appointments scheduled. This consisted of a dietics appointment on the 31st of October . This appointment only lasted roughly fifteen minutes. I was advised I would be on a liquid diet and we disused foods I could have and couldn't have. I was also given leaflets with ideas on what I could have as a guideline. This was a mandatory appointment which would be crucial in recovery pos
Hello Everyone, Sorry It's been a while since last posting. I had my joint clinic on the 2nd of August and they gave me my surgery date! I was a bit apprehensive about if I'd get my date or not so I tried not to get to excited and hopeful just in case I was let down at the appointment. I walked into the room after waiting half an hour extra due to the clinic times running over, by this time I was the only patient in the waiting room. Overwhelmingly there was so many health care professionals in the room which made me feel slightly anxious about the whole process. However it went really well and I wasn't in there long. I was able to look at x-rays and moulds of my teeth from the start of the process before braces at 13/14 years old to very recently post surgery. The change was phenomenal! The surgeon moved the moulds to the position that my teeth and jaw would sit after surgery and I was gobsmacked. Going from a massive overbite to no overbite at all made me beam with ha