Re: Removal of Surgical Hooks

[Guest guest]

Hi Greta,

Those kind of surgical hooks are removed by your ortho when he/she

replaces your surgical archwires. The surgical archwires are a

heavier-than the normal archwires that are put in place to keep

things stable up to the surgery. After surgery, once your ortho

decides to start fine-tuning, he/she won't need those heavy surgical

archwires and that's when they'll come off. I saw my ortho 8 weeks

post-op, he would not see me any sooner (except I saw him the day I

was released from hospital as my rubber bands broke and he was

closer).

Hope that helps,

> Hi there:

>

> I posted an earlier question and realized I asked it wrongly. I

meant to ask if

> someone out there could tell me how their Surgical Hooks are

removed? Is it

> a big deal - or not.

>

> (The surgical hooks are used by those of us that are banded shut -

they are

> attached to the wires on our braces and the bands are attached to

the hooks.)

>

> Thanks for any information you might have.

>

> Greta

[Guest guest]

As is soo often the case with these things, there can be different

answers.

My surgeon had me see my ortho within 24 hours of removing the

splint, " So he can get those big wires out of there right away. "

I saw the ortho, and he segmented the surgical wire, leaving parts of

it in and leaving some of the back brackets naked, so he could band

directly around the brackets. I didn't think much of that, but it

surely worked.

He did take out the big, looping " hooks " my surgeon had fashioned out

of braided wire, and replaced them with smaller hooks to hold more

elastics.

But my surgical wires stayed in until the bitter end -- at least the

part of them that wasn't cut out.

Cammie

> > Hi there:

> >

> > I posted an earlier question and realized I asked it wrongly. I

> meant to ask if

> > someone out there could tell me how their Surgical Hooks are

> removed? Is it

> > a big deal - or not.

> >

> > (The surgical hooks are used by those of us that are banded shut -

> they are

> > attached to the wires on our braces and the bands are attached to

> the hooks.)

> >

> > Thanks for any information you might have.

> >

> > Greta