Hello,
To start off, I currently have all four wisdom teeth. The plan that Dr. Bell had set up , was that I was supposed to get my wisdom teeth taken out about 4-5 months after my pallet expansion surgery. I was totally up for this. I was actually planning on getting them out this month. I got a referral from my ortho, but apparently I've used up all of my dental benefits money. With my Delta PPO insurance, I get 2,000 to spend in one year. I got a lot of work done on my teeth this year. I had lots of fillings, got a cleaning, and had a root canal. I used up the full amount for this year. This would mean that i would have to pay full price to get all 4 taken out. I got the price...... a whopping $1,700! If my insurance was covering it, I would only be paying around $300. Long story short, I will now be getting them out early next year. I went to Dr. Kawata to get my braces tightened again and told him the news. He told me that this will push my jaw surgery date back further. They can only do the surgery about 9 months after I get my wisdom teeth pulled. Everything has to be completely healed. What this means is that instead of having the surgery around summer, I will be getting it late fall. I plan on getting them out in January, and that's what I'm hoping for, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will happen that month. Time off from work, and financials permitting. fingers crossed!
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Throw back information about surgery and after surgery
Hello, I wanted to post some pictures that I found. I wish that i had
posted these the day of, but there was a lot going on. There are so
many things I remember about recovery now.
1. Vertigo on about the fourth and fifth day after surgery. I was laying in bed on an incline trying to get some sleep. I closed my eyes when all of the sudden the room started spinning. I jumped out of bed because I felt like I was going to vomit. I could not go back to sleep for hours, it was awful because I was so tired and all I wanted to do was sleep, but being dizzy is the worst. I called my surgeon the next day and he told me this was normal and shouldn't last too long. He let me know that they do some tapping during the surgery, and that will sometimes cause some imbalance to the equilibrium. It lasted a day and a half.
2. Blood clots in the nose. When they do the surgery, there is obviously a lot of blood that will come up through the nasal passages. Although I didn't experience a bloody nose through recovery, I did however, have huge blood clots trapped way up my nose. Dr. Bell told me not to blow my nose, so I got a flashlight and looked up there. I saw the clots, they were super hard, pretty much mucus and blood, just hardened. I took some tweezers and gently pulled these huge hard clots out. You have no idea how satisfying it was, and how much better I could breathe after that. Gross, but that's the reality of it.
3. Spitting up blood. Every time I brushed my teeth or rinsed my mouth out, blood would be in the sink. I would sort of clear my throat and spit, and blood would come out. I know that it was just old blood from the back of my throat, and also some that most likely caught in my expander, and incisions.
1. Vertigo on about the fourth and fifth day after surgery. I was laying in bed on an incline trying to get some sleep. I closed my eyes when all of the sudden the room started spinning. I jumped out of bed because I felt like I was going to vomit. I could not go back to sleep for hours, it was awful because I was so tired and all I wanted to do was sleep, but being dizzy is the worst. I called my surgeon the next day and he told me this was normal and shouldn't last too long. He let me know that they do some tapping during the surgery, and that will sometimes cause some imbalance to the equilibrium. It lasted a day and a half.
2. Blood clots in the nose. When they do the surgery, there is obviously a lot of blood that will come up through the nasal passages. Although I didn't experience a bloody nose through recovery, I did however, have huge blood clots trapped way up my nose. Dr. Bell told me not to blow my nose, so I got a flashlight and looked up there. I saw the clots, they were super hard, pretty much mucus and blood, just hardened. I took some tweezers and gently pulled these huge hard clots out. You have no idea how satisfying it was, and how much better I could breathe after that. Gross, but that's the reality of it.
3. Spitting up blood. Every time I brushed my teeth or rinsed my mouth out, blood would be in the sink. I would sort of clear my throat and spit, and blood would come out. I know that it was just old blood from the back of my throat, and also some that most likely caught in my expander, and incisions.
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| This was 8 days after surgery, I was so swollen! By the way, check out the message Dr. Bell has on his white board. |
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| 8 hours after the surgery |
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| Day of surgery |
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| Day before surgery, getting my expander in. |
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