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Friday, December 16, 2016

Will I be covered/Consultation

Once I decided that I wanted to do this, my next question was, will my insurance cover this? I have Kaiser Permanente and I wasn't sure on how that all worked. I did research and what I found was that they do cover Orthagnathic Surgery, however, there are specific qualifications like; measurements, and severity. When I saw that, I got worried because like I said on my first post, my under bite is not severe. The day of my consultation I was a bit nervous about what he would think. My hope was that I would only need to get my lower jaw corrected. I had seen a lot of  double jaw surgeries and not a lot of experiences where they just move the lower jaw back. I was thinking in my case I would just need the lower jaw done. I thought hey, if it's just the lower jaw it won't be that bad! Well my bubble of self diagnoses was popped. Dr. Bell told me that he wants to move the lower jaw back, upper jaw forward and tilted down a bit so that my top teeth would show more. He gave me an example of those models who have that beautiful resting face, pouty lips and just a bit of teeth showing. It made me laugh a bit, but then I suddenly got excited. Hey who wouldn't wanna have that look? One thing I was worried about was my nose! I've read so many stories of peoples noses getting wider. Let me just say, I have a wide nose, and I expressed this to him, he said its possible, and that the tip of my nose may point up a bit more. I mean it sucks, but good thing I know how to contour! Last thing he said that I wasn't expecting was that I would also need to get my palate expanded! (Saay Whaaaa?!) his words were that if it doesn't have to be expanded more than 4mm then he can do it while im getting my jaw surgery. See, now this would be an ideal situation. I DO NOT... want to go through two separate surgeries. First beacause I don't wanna know the pain of it yet, cause I don't want to get scared out of having the major surgery, and second reason is because I cant be taking off so much work. Granted, I get vacation and sick leave, but that needs to be saved up for the major surgery. My next question was......ummm will this be covered by my insurance? He said it would be, and I kept asking for reassurance because I knew that there were guidelines. He told me, "don't worry, I tell them if it's needed or not." He gave me a bunch of print outs to read, and also told me that I would need to make an appointment with one of the orthodontists he usually works with. One was 30 minutes away from where I lived, so naturally I went with that one. I would have to get a consultation with the orthodontist next and get my records done. That was it, I felt really good with Dr. Bell, he knows his stuff, and very confident in what he does.







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