Teeth wiring is beneficial because it prevents non-unions. Simply put, a non-union is when your bones don't heal together properly after surgery. A non-union can be caused by poor blood supply or poor stabilization. If your doctor recommends that your jaw be wired shut for a while after surgery, it's probably for a good reason.
If a patient ends up with a non-union, he or she could experience pain and require another oral surgery. Jaw wiring is just another tool the doctor will use to encourage the best outcome of your surgery.
There are a couple of ways your doctor can wire your jaws shut. An orthodontist can place braces on your teeth and then attach surgical hooks to the brackets. During your jaw surgery, your doctor will use small wire loops around the surgical hooks which will keep your teeth together. Instead of wire, some doctors may use elastic rubber bands around the surgical hooks. If your doctor doesn't want to place braces on your teeth, then he or she may use ivy loops.
These ivy loops are wrapped around the teeth themselves without an orthodontic archwire or brackets. Lastly, for more stabilization, a doctor may recommend screw-retained arch bars. Your doctor would use an arch bar that's screwed into the bone which then can support external loop wires to hold the jaw shut during healing. Jaw wiring isn't painful. Your doctor will wire your teeth together while you are still under general anesthesia.
Plus, during recovery, you may actually experience post-operative numbness because a lot of the nerves in the lips, chin, and gums may still need to heal. But they got a plate of cheesy tater tots. And I was watching them eat the tater tots and I literally took a tater tot and was trying to pull it apart into tiny pieces and shove it behind my teeth and the wires got all disgusting.
I noticed like there are so many popular videos on TikTok of people with disabilities. I was wondering how you feel about the app being a positive way to showcase different lifestyles and very different issues people deal with.
For sure. People for the most part are really, really nice; there has been limited nastiness in my experience. And just because I want to give you an opportunity to not talk about your jaw.
I was like, I need to text Colgate! I need to text Oral B! I need to get in touch with all of these people. I think that bird may have flown the coop though, now that the jaw has been set free. Honestly, I might get a writing job. After years of consults, research and fear — and a whole lot of waffling — I had just completed the orthognathic double jaw surgery that would bring my teeth into proper alignment. The downside was that my doctor was cutting my gums open and breaking my jaw in four places, then screwing parts of it back in place.
It would all heal immobilized in surgical braces, a metal band strapped around the gums by individually tying metal wires around the base of the teeth. My teeth would be fixed in place, tightly clenched, for the next month. What if I freak out? What if I hate the way my new face looks? Fucking hell: what if I throw up? That last possibility, perhaps the most revolting for one with a newly bound jaw, is one the doctors plan for, at least for the first 24 hours or so, running a tube through the nose down into the stomach to capture any blood that accumulates.
The tube down my throat made swallowing feel a herculean task, one I had to brace for, wince and inhale a deep breath each time before attempting. Plus, as anyone who has ever breathed air is probably aware, there are exactly two ways to do it. My nose, usually a good option, slowly closed up in the hours and days after the procedure as my nasal and sinus passages swelled.
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