One month

Yesterday marked one month since my surgery. It was also the first week since I had surgery that I had no doctors appointments whatsoever. I will, however, more than make up for it with 3 next week.

Not so much to report. The insides of my mouth are still getting irritated and really swollen from the braces and bands and it is has caused some noticeable swelling on along my jawline, particularly on the right-hand side. Still numb on the insides of my mouth, my bottom lip and chin and I have been having more frequent pins and needles feelings and warm sensations in my lip.

One thing that did occur in the past week was my orthodontist uploaded my original records to my online account so I have access to how things looked prior to even having braces. This should give people a pretty good idea of why I needed braces and then jaw surgery once the braces had done their job. As you can see from the first picture, I always had a pretty bad overbite so much so that my front teeth completely covered my bottom teeth when I bit down. For those who do not know any better, this should not happen. In addition to that my front teeth were not standing up straight, but instead were slanted back toward my bottom teeth as seen in the second picture. This slant combined with the overbite would have eventually cause erosion of my lower gums. The third picture is post iBraces. As you can see my teeth were straighter but my overbite had been accentuated by the fact that my top teeth no longer slanted back towards my lower teeth. And thus, the jaw surgery was needed to advance my lower jaw and teeth and correct my bite.