Guest guest Posted April 29, 2003 Report Share Posted April 29, 2003 hi everyone, i am scheduled to have my surgery on my upper and lower jaws july 14th. Lately i've been a little worried because the only time i met with the surgeon was when he examined my jaw and decided i needed surgery, then a year later after the insurance company finally agreed to cover me, i met with him again so he could see how my jaw was doing. That was in January. Since then i have been going to my orthodontist every 3 weeks to have my braces altered. The surgeon's secretary scheduled my surgery and also a pre-op appointment to give me a physical and make sure i'm healthy enough to have the surgery. I just thought this was kind of wierd that i am not going to see the surgeon until just before the surgery so i decided to schedule another appointment with him before the physical. I am really curious if everyone else here hardly saw their surgeon. I feel like i just haven't been given all the details about my surgery and what exactly is going to happen. I mean, they've told me " we're going to shorten your upper jaw, pull it forward, pull your bottom jaw forward and maybe alter your chin so it fits your face better " but they haven't given me exact details about what to expect. My mom was a little concerned about that too, we feel like i've just been lost in the shuffle of all the other patients and they're treating me more like an item on an assembly line than an actual individual person. I'm really worried about how different i'm going to look after the surgery and it seems like it's going to be pretty emotionally stressful, so it seems like they'd have a counselor to talk to or someone to make me feel a little more confident about what's going to happen. So basically, I am just curious about what it was like for other people, before the surgery...how much you saw your actual surgeon, how the doctors prepared you, how many details they gave you about what was going to happen, etc... (sorry for such a long post! I'm just getting kind of nervous as the surgery gets closer...!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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