Hello,
I’ve got a PEEK implant three weeks ago and there is a major issue with it.
As I tried to represent it in the attached pic, I cannot feel the implant as it is on the plan. What I can feel is a big bump, irregular and hard like a bone. I am really worried about it.
Has anyone already experienced this ? Could it be edema ? coagulated blood ?
I’m currently seeing a physiotherapist and she’s convinced that it is bone because it is not movable.
I’ve already talked about this with my surgeon but I could see that he had actually no idea. He told me that I should wait since it may be from the swelling, but he also told me that I am too perfectionist and expect too much.
Is it too much to expect a bone at least regular after spending thousands of euros ? (it's not rhetorical, I actually have no idea). I’m not even talking about the aesthetic aspect (that I don’t even like) but as weird as it may sound I have not done this surgery in this purpose. I am 26 and I had to go through 6 jaw surgery (including this one) already, the first was done when I was 13 and destroyed my whole bone structure. So the whole point of this implant was to cover the marks left by all these surgeries.
So if anyone has knowledge in this field : is it possible that the part I drew in red can be something else that my bone ?
I don’t want to follow the surgeon’s recommendation (which is to wait again). That’s been 15 years that I live with these problems and I would like to finally see the end of it. All my former interventions have led to disappointments like this and proved each time to be the worst case scenario. It was the case with the last one and I had to wait 2 years to prepare this one. If my surgeon cannot, I think everyone else can understand why I don’t want to wait another 6 months without knowing if something goes wrong with this surgery.