Finally Braces Off !!!

They’re off!

Yippeee!!!

Now i can run my tongue across your teeth, i mean when i run my tounge i can feel feel my teeth and it feels amazing. i need to wear retainers now jus for the final stage of my treatment and that is to keep this alignment permanently.

Miss U!!!

Dr Jeomy took around one hour to polish my teeth when my braces were off. IT SMELLED HORRIBLE! Then I remembered I needed a retainer. He put a kind of clay(model wax i guess!!) on my top and bottom teeth and took it out to make my retainer. IT ALSO TASTED HORRIBLE! Im gonna get my retainer next week. MMM treatments all are somewhat over and i'm happy but again i remembered to consult a Gum specialist Dr Arunima for some gum treatment... May be cuz i've some gum infection.

My first better smile Showing teeth!!!

4TH JAW-NIVERSARY

Hi friends today is my 4TH JAW-NIVERSARY and BRACES. ARE. STILL. ON. 
I do not know life without them. Family and friends don't really know me without braces, I think. I currently look like I'm pushing 18. 

Present Updates:

1: Braces still there and thats y im getting gums infections regularly like once in a month basis.

2: Numbess: Partial numbess is there on left lower set of teeth. ( This numbness i donot want to go off just cuz i slowly started loving this inconvenience and can not think about a life without it)

3:chewing is still an odd sensation and a bit difficult with some foods

No pictures this time because I am half an year behind on posting it and soon my braces going to come off. So on the next post you'll get updated pictures as well as information. And that will be when my braces gets off.

Three YEARS...!!!!

Hi friends, i'm back after exactly one year....  i wasn't updating much in these days just cuz i didn't had much to tell.. i stopped caring my braces and now started it once again... and oh yeah i got news from my orthodontist my braces will go off within two months, im happy to hear that and sad, i'll miss 'em for sure...!!!!

I came across this old picture and I couldn't believe how awful it made me feel. I remember I felt so self conscious, so embarrassed, so depressed about the way I used to look. 

Three years has passed since my surgery and I am so so grateful every day that I decided to go through this. I feel so happy in my own looks ! 

After

Before

Two Years Post Update...!!!

And, April 25th marked my second Jaw-niversary..... Firstly, I have to apologise for being a rubbish blogger.  I know I haven't posted for a few months and this two year update is coming on 4th may, 

So 2 year on... Exactly Two year ago on April 25, 2012, I was being wheeled into a surgery .I then spent the next two months recovering (you can read all about that in my previous posts). Reflecting on the whole experience I feel SO fortunate. Over the years I’ve read many blogs by people who went through similar surgeries and not all of them went as smoothly as mine.

I honestly think I can attribute the success of my surgery to the amazing care I had pre- during and after surgery. There was Dr Oommen's fantastic team. Dr.Rodney, who made me laugh through the humiliation of having braces in my twenties, the amazingly talented Dr. Oommen Aju Jacob and Dr Jeomy Zachariah Oommen and Dr. Murukan, who answered every single one of my questions and who let me know I was in safe hands all the way, and of course, my wonderful, beautiful mother who fed me, let me sleep in her bed and generally did absolutely everything for me the first four weeks after surgery when I was needing her care like an infant. my sweet sister who visited me, brought me presents, and even made me homemade soup, my father who welcomed me into  home with open arms, I truly am blessed to have had such wonderful people at my side and I thank God for that often.

Amazingly I don’t really have anything to tell you. Besides the obvious fact that my face looks different, it’s almost as if nothing ever happened. I gained back the weight I lost almost the moment I could eat, I have the feeling back in 99.9% of my face and I’m even (almost) used to seeing my profile in the mirror. Every so often when I’m putting on makeup I feel myself rub against plastic covered area under my lips but it doesn’t hurt at all, it just seems a little weird.

Yes I still have numbness on my left lips and chin (and will for life) but other than that there’s no remnant of this historic surgery. Considering I spent close to a decade researching it, wondering about it and worrying, it’s so odd to just have it done. No more looking at other people’s before and afters fantasizing about what my face will look like, and no more self-consciously trying to hide my under-bite. A part of my life is over and honestly I couldn’t be happier.

I doubt anyone is still reading this blog, but in case you are... I thought I would put some pictures up. I still have my braces on and no idea when I will be getting them off, but everything is going great. I'm very happy I had the surgery done.

Ulcers.... 1,2....3!!!!

I saw Dr. Rodney last week. It seems as though that the green elastics that I've had to wear across the molar teeth for the last five weeks worked a tiny bit but i misplaced the hooks. My ortho got disappointed to see the way i wore that. he gave a brief speech about the necessity of wearing elastics once again and advised to use pink code elastics instead of green. Now he says pink one’s are the softest code, i remember he told me before green ones are the softest. When i enquired that he don’t even remember that he don’t even remember his old words. but i know i remember his words, green one are the softest bands which are available...!!!! So now they have me wearing elastics 24 *7.  Now, I don't have a degree in orthodontics or dentistry or anything, so if anyone who does would like to explain all of this to me, I'm all ears. These annoying elastics hurt!!! Really hurts, often i have uncontrollable urge to pull this out but the same time my ortho’s face keeps me continue with it. Well, things aren’t going well with my cheeks, these elastics started scratching my cheeks and three ulcers turned up at the same time, on two lower and one upper lip.... And i stopped wearing elastics since i found ulcers   plus to that a part of dental clip from left upper molar teeth broken and the wire got liberty from being held tight to that joint. It started digging my lip lavishly with its full strength. i’m very uneasy about talking or eating. Torture!  But anyway.  Thats life.   50% normal, 50% weird.

broken part

I had another person contact me today through Facebook regarding jaw surgery after finding my blog. I thought, how are so many people finding this blog? So, I Googled "The Extreme Jaw Lift" and this one pops out on the list! I know it sounds lame, but I thought it was AWESOME!!!

Small But Sharp!!!!

I had another visit to my orthodontist last day evening and had my lower jaw wired onto a new clip. It was really hurting but that is normal after every appointment but later the matter got worse.  The foremost part of clip which opened above the teeth has sharp ends and it was touching and rubbing my tongue and it’s horribly hurts when i try to talk or eat…. I skipped dinner and directly went to bed…. Morning I woke up early in the morning and ringed my surgeon, he was empathetic and fixed my appointment at 10.30am….

I stumbled into my orthodontist’s office at 10. 25:00 am. The clip fixated to my right (which broken and fixed last day) lower braces has been dug in my tongue, and I was unable to bend it or trim it myself. I feel a little uneasy about sticking wire cutters into the very back of mouth, where I cannot see, and attempting to clip off some excess metal. I was also having extreme difficulty eating because every time I moved my mouth to chew, a little more of my tongue would get scraped off. So, taking the intelligent route, I went to visit my surgeon. He informed me that my right lower clip had actually sharp ends which were digging my tongue. After adjusting it he advised to apply ointment on the sides of tongue which has rashes and take saline water twice a day... I feel much better already. But it still hurts; I think it’s just because of those rashes. So its ok I think.

Again.... Fever!!!!

I have noticed something a little odd. An ulcer turned up in the numb area of my left lower lip, it doesn't caused any pain since it is on the numb area… No pain means no gain or what??? hehehe but i think its true, It was not hurting so i ignored that completely, but after almost one week, it's started complaining in other ways... It doesn't hurt or feel anything but my head aches when it touches with something, i mean food or water and after one more day its size bulged and my lips and chin feels heavy and a bit swollen….. Moreover, my facial muscles and ear were very sore and had a rise in temperature also…. My lips and chin were still very swollen and I was taking maximum pain relief.  I ringed my surgeon thinking that the temperature caused due to this ulcer but he advised that can be cuz of sinus infection and he was true!!!Another sinus infection going on over here….. My surgeon advised to take steam and Imole plus!!!.... Plus Side, ulcer started winding up slowly and the minus side, the fever strongly going on its incredible journey…. 

Fever means sitting inside home doing nothing, sleeping or in bed for 24 hrs which i ever hate... last time when i had fever i was at bed almost all time.... Luckly, this time i got some gaps, i means intervals between fever attacks, just two or three hours but i maximum utilized that. I also bought some new nail polish last week, i do have a bit of an obsession with my nails, and did this.. There are some seriously amazing nail arts out there, like spiders and flowers, my free hand skills aren't that good yet, but practise makes perfect!