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General Category => Functional Surgery Questions => Topic started by: ppsk on January 17, 2017, 10:36:58 PM
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Obviously Alfaro is the big champion of it, but does anyone else have any other names?
I'm starting to realize how involved double jaw surgery is, and I really really really do not want to have spend 18 months in braces prior, as i have a normal bite and straight teeth aside from minor crowding on the lower.
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I THINK that surgeons who specialize in doing it for sleep apnea do the surgery without braces if the patient doesn't need them. An orthodontist told me that anyway.
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Obviously Alfaro is the big champion of it, but does anyone else have any other names?
I'm starting to realize how involved double jaw surgery is, and I really really really do not want to have spend 18 months in braces prior, as i have a normal bite and straight teeth aside from minor crowding on the lower.
If that's the case and you have no functional issues, then don't do it.
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If that's the case and you have no functional issues, then don't do it.
I'm doing it for aesthetic reasons, increasing airway and what not is just a boon.
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I'm doing it for aesthetic reasons, increasing airway and what not is just a boon.
Jaw surgery is not a haircut. You may come out of this looking worse and with functional issue - bad bite, nerve damage.
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i know marianetti does. f**kin hell 2 years ago no one did this, just alfaro. jesus my timing is so bad
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Jaw surgery is not a haircut. You may come out of this looking worse and with functional issue - bad bite, nerve damage.
I'm well aware of the risks, but do keep patronizing me like i landed here from a cosmetics website.
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I'm well aware of the risks, but do keep patronizing me like i landed here from a cosmetics website.
LOL ;D ;D ;D
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Is there any benefit to surgery first aside from the wait?
If the bite is poor and/or the patient has existing camouflage orthodonthic work done before is it always better to work with braces first?
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Is there any benefit to surgery first aside from the wait?
If the bite is poor and/or the patient has existing camouflage orthodonthic work done before is it always better to work with braces first?
Supposedly teeth move faster after the jaws have been moved first - "regional acceletory phenomenon". So the total treatment time may be less.
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I do not think the starting point inquiry is a simple pigeon hole of:
A) Surgery first or
B) Ortho first & Surgery 2nd.
I think the starting point is to evaluate the patient and then have an open minded experienced surgeon make a decision as to which order is best for the individual patient.