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hello, livejournal world!
i apparently have not updated this since may 1st, so i feel an update is much overdue.
let's discuss this: in four weeks time i will be sporting braces for the second time in my life. i, like most teenagers, dealt with the woes of the bothersome metal gear, having worn braces for slightly over five years. as of next month, though, i will be a ridiculous twenty-something deciding what color rubberbands i am interested in wearing this week.
now, kat, if you had braces for five years, why on earth are you getting them again? did you really love them that much?!
that is a great question.
as a preface, i cannot close my mouth. i have an overbite so severe that after a few seconds of keeping my mouth closed, i must open it, as the pain in my jaw is too overwhelming. so, because of this, i am a mouth breather, which means chronic sinusitis and tonsilitis. my throat is always infected. i am always plagued by unbearable allergies. if i didn't have my allergy shots every two weeks these last few months, i probably would be unable to leave my house.
SO! the wonderful braces i will be rocking next month are in preparation for this june (an unfortunate eight months away), where i will be undergoing the following surgical procedures:
a) orthognathic surgery of both top and bottom jaws
b) sliding genioplasty
c) turninate reduction surgery
to put it plainly: after many, many months of preparation i will FINALLY be able to close my mouth and fix my horrendous overbite. to do this, my oral surgeon will be breaking both of my jaws; the top mandible will be pushed upwards and the bottom will be pulled forward. (mind you, this new positioning of my jaw will be held together by screws!) this will not fully fix my inability to close my mouth, so the sliding genioplasty is what the name suggests: the chin bone will be slid forward. as for the turbinate reduction, that is the shaving of turbinate bones in the nose to allow me to finally know what it is like to breathe through my nose.
following the surgery, my jaw will be wired shut for four weeks, meaning i will be unable to open my mouth more than a quarter of an inch or so. i will be on a completely liquid diet for six weeks and will look every shade of black, blue, green, and yellow imageineable. i also have to sleep sitting up for a couple weeks, which should prove to be quite a challenge.
it probably sounds funny that i am way more bummed about the braces than about the ripping my jaw out and repositioning it thing.
i apparently have not updated this since may 1st, so i feel an update is much overdue.
let's discuss this: in four weeks time i will be sporting braces for the second time in my life. i, like most teenagers, dealt with the woes of the bothersome metal gear, having worn braces for slightly over five years. as of next month, though, i will be a ridiculous twenty-something deciding what color rubberbands i am interested in wearing this week.
now, kat, if you had braces for five years, why on earth are you getting them again? did you really love them that much?!
that is a great question.
as a preface, i cannot close my mouth. i have an overbite so severe that after a few seconds of keeping my mouth closed, i must open it, as the pain in my jaw is too overwhelming. so, because of this, i am a mouth breather, which means chronic sinusitis and tonsilitis. my throat is always infected. i am always plagued by unbearable allergies. if i didn't have my allergy shots every two weeks these last few months, i probably would be unable to leave my house.
SO! the wonderful braces i will be rocking next month are in preparation for this june (an unfortunate eight months away), where i will be undergoing the following surgical procedures:
a) orthognathic surgery of both top and bottom jaws
b) sliding genioplasty
c) turninate reduction surgery
to put it plainly: after many, many months of preparation i will FINALLY be able to close my mouth and fix my horrendous overbite. to do this, my oral surgeon will be breaking both of my jaws; the top mandible will be pushed upwards and the bottom will be pulled forward. (mind you, this new positioning of my jaw will be held together by screws!) this will not fully fix my inability to close my mouth, so the sliding genioplasty is what the name suggests: the chin bone will be slid forward. as for the turbinate reduction, that is the shaving of turbinate bones in the nose to allow me to finally know what it is like to breathe through my nose.
following the surgery, my jaw will be wired shut for four weeks, meaning i will be unable to open my mouth more than a quarter of an inch or so. i will be on a completely liquid diet for six weeks and will look every shade of black, blue, green, and yellow imageineable. i also have to sleep sitting up for a couple weeks, which should prove to be quite a challenge.
it probably sounds funny that i am way more bummed about the braces than about the ripping my jaw out and repositioning it thing.