Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I've never heard of " distractors, " but I'm glad your surgeon is pleased with the result so far. I had to chuckle out loud when I read your husband's comment to the lady in the post office. And thanks for the advice on the popping jaw. My surgeon looked at me today - and said not to worry - it's a common thing as things settle after surgery. Corinne > Hi! > > I just came back from another appointment with my surgeon. I'm now > almost 7 weeks post-op from my TMJ reconstruction. My bite is > holding up well and my surgeon turned the screws for the final time > today (I hope anyway.) The engineers that designed these particular > distractors with my surgeon were there today as well. I was the > first patient they had used these on so they were very interested to > see the results and were happy with them. My surgeon was very > excited and took a bunch of pictures so he could present my case at > an upcoming conference. > > Now they are designing a new bone plate that slides into part of the > distractor. That way when the surgeon removes the distractors, he > will only have to remove part of them and the surgery will be less > invasive. The new plates will be ready in about 3-4 weeks so I get > to keep my " jewelry " for another 4-5 weeks. > > Speaking of jewelry, today a woman at the post office looked at the > screws hanging out of my face and said " I've never seen piercings > like that before! " . My husband replied with a straight face " You > should see what else she has pierced. " She looked a little shocked > until we explained to her what the " earrings " really were. I'm sure > I'll hear a lot more of that when I return to work next week. > > I hope everyone else is doing well, too. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 The story about the " piercings " is a hoot, ! Trust your hubby to come up with that one ... I think it was a great answer, though. Just goes to show -- 30 years ago, I doubt that anybody would have thought anything like that, looking at you. I hope that will indeed be the last turn for you, ever, and that those danged things will be coming out soon. If I were you, I would be very, very weary of them. But you're much more patient than I could ever have been with all of this. And it sounds to me as though you're become a real orthognathic-TMJ medical celebrity. That takes courage, too, to be the first. But I reckon they probably couldn't have accomplished so much for you 30 years ago, either -- or even 10, for that matter. Congratulations on sticking it out. Cammie > Hi! > > I just came back from another appointment with my surgeon. I'm now > almost 7 weeks post-op from my TMJ reconstruction. My bite is > holding up well and my surgeon turned the screws for the final time > today (I hope anyway.) The engineers that designed these particular > distractors with my surgeon were there today as well. I was the > first patient they had used these on so they were very interested to > see the results and were happy with them. My surgeon was very > excited and took a bunch of pictures so he could present my case at > an upcoming conference. > > Now they are designing a new bone plate that slides into part of the > distractor. That way when the surgeon removes the distractors, he > will only have to remove part of them and the surgery will be less > invasive. The new plates will be ready in about 3-4 weeks so I get > to keep my " jewelry " for another 4-5 weeks. > > Speaking of jewelry, today a woman at the post office looked at the > screws hanging out of my face and said " I've never seen piercings > like that before! " . My husband replied with a straight face " You > should see what else she has pierced. " She looked a little shocked > until we explained to her what the " earrings " really were. I'm sure > I'll hear a lot more of that when I return to work next week. > > I hope everyone else is doing well, too. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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