Posted on Dec 20, 2005

Surgery

Yea, it hurts. Not much else to talk about. I’m home and recovering.

10 Comments

  • Jill says:

    What exactly did you have surgerized if you don’t mind me asking? You just look very confused and medicated in the picture, so it’s hard to tell. ;-)

  • I’m also curious about the what the surgery did. In the picture you look tired and a little disconnected. But I hope that the swelling and pain decreases sufficiently so that you can have a good holiday.

  • Upper jaw and lower chin. Aligned my teeth so I have a stright bite. Lots of breaking of bone and metal plates involved. Yum.

  • I guess a side benefit of the surgery is that it will shorten your overall time in braces and it has also done things that they couldn’t do.

  • Tia Nancy says:

    Where’s the edema? Where’s the bruising? I’ve seen worse when I had a crown done. You must have had some mighty fine nursing care!

    Seriously, I hope you are feeling better, J.. I’ll check in with my source later in the week.

  • I was reading the other comments and it fired up my curiousity. I did a bit of google searching and found a jaw surgery web site which started with me saying “Wow!” followed by “Oh, man” and finally “ouch.” I thought I would pass the link along.

    http://www.jdnheidi.com/heidi/preop_guide.asp

  • Anonymous says:

    Any chance of getting a higher res version of that pic?

  • Miguel says:

    Hi Jason,

    I have to decide on being submitted to a Lefort I intervention suggested by my dentist. So, I’m now surfing the web…

    Can you please submit or send me before/after photos?

    Thank you very much

    Miguel

  • Teresa says:

    Ive have experinced a broken jaw in 2 places ( lower jaw Ive had 3 surgerys in the past 7 months ) Im on going to more surgery on the 28th I have 2 titiam plates and 10 screws ( lower jaw ) the pain is so bad.

  • Hi Miguel,
    I posted some before and after pictures at my surgery information page for you. I hope this helps.

    -Jason