^ Could you do multisegment lefort, lazlo? or did you already have that as part of 1st surgery? I'm in same boat with no room in my mouth and it all comes back to extractions. Did you ever consider reversing them?
Generally it seems older patients who do jaw surgery for sleep apnea come out of it pretty happy. Being able to breathe outweighs any other complications.
Hi April, remind me of your surgery details? How old are you? I'm sorry you also need a revision.
Well Sinn said he did a multisegment lefort. But the problem is that that because i had both upper and lower bicuspid extractions my lower dental arch is very narrow and pushed significantly back.
And the lower dental arch determines how much the upper arch can be expanded.
Also, the tongue movies with the lower jaw when brought forward so the amount of space you have never actually changes even though your jaws are advanced.
I'm seeing some surgeons over the next several months to ask about what can be done. Maybe Sarpe or some form of CCW rotation. I've been advised NOT to have the extractions reversed because moving the teeth again that much may be very detrimental for the roots and could involve losing teeth eventually.
I can't believe something like this has basically ruined my life. There is not a minute during the day that I'm not aware of my tongue sitting between my teeth and being curled back because of the lack of space. I never had any of these problems before orthodontics/extractions. I didn't even have that much crowding. He could have left it well as it was, I could have had the surgery and I'd be fine. Instead he ended up elongating the bloody treatment by almost four years (I was in braces forever) and causing all these problems.
If anyone has any idea of what can be done in such a situation, please let me know.