Re: looking for lower jaw/overbite correction stories

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Hi, and welcome here.

Sounds like you're starting off.

Many of us here had braces as children, didn't have the surgery then,

relapsed, and now have to do the braces over along with the surgery.

The best lay resource I know of, honestly, is these web groups. Oss1

(here); oss 2 (look in the links) and Fiddlesticks' geocities

site (look in the links). Read around in what's there, then come back

and post your questions is the best suggestion I can make.

As for medical and scholarly ones, I believe there are many, if

you're skilled at doing such technical searches. I am not, but there

may be someone here who is.

I have read stats that are all over the block about the surgery. Some

say that lower advancement is more likely to cause numbness, and

particularly lower advancement by bilateral saggital split osteotomy,

which is exactly what I had, by 5 mm forward and 3 to the side. I

never had any numbness. Had very little pain. Very little swelling.

much bruising, greatly improved function and general mouth health. My

surgeon had a most excellent morning that day, and so did I!

For which I am grateful to the fates and fortunes, believe me!

I was neither wired nor banded when I left the hospital. I did have a

wired-in splint for 7 weeks.

9 mm is fairly large 3 to 4 mm is the smallest I've heard of a

surgeon doing. I have also, however, heard of much greater jaw

growth, including one patient who needed an astonishing 17 mm.

Good wishes to you!

Cammie

> hello,

> i just got back from the ortho today regarding correcting my

overbite. I already had braces

> as a kid but they didn't do much more than straighten my teeth. i

have a 9mm overbite

> and big front teeth. The ortho said the only option was surgery to

advance my lower jaw.

> I'm trying to research the effects of numbness. How long lasting it

is, and how long term it

> can be. Does anyone on this site know of any good resources or

studies on this?

> thanks in advance.