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PokerDoc88 Australia. Jan 25 2008 01:10. Posts 3527 | | |
So I got jaw surgery coming up, I'm booked in Saturday morning on the 2nd of Feb. Because I consider this to be fairly major event in my life, and because I want a quick and complication-free healing period afterward, I'm deciding to not play any more poker until the surgery is done and probably won't play for at least 2 weeks afterwards. The reason for not playing prior to the surgery is, it would be really gay to go on a 10bi downswing, mentally feel like shit, and then go under the knife. I'm happy with my poker progress this month so far (+$2k in approx 35k hands), so I'll just let it stay that way.
The purpose for the surgery is I have a very big over-bite, meaning my top teeth protrude over my bottom teeth. Because of this, when I bite down fully, my teeth only touch at the back molars, and the front teeth make no contact whatsoever. The gap at the front is so large that I can bite down fully, and still poke my tongue through with ease.
These pictures kinda show what is being done, I'll try to commentate exactly what each picture is trying to show.
-This shows a side-on view of the skull only. The black line shows the cut they will be making into my maxilla to adjust my upper jaw. The result is to bring my upper teeth lower and backwards.
http://www.dropshots.com/LilClinkin#date/2008-01-25/18:10:21
-This shows a frontal view of both the skull and mandible. The cut-lines are in red this time, and show how they are cutting directly back into my maxilla (upper jaw), and how they are cutting my lower jaw on both sides to adjust the angle, bringing it upwards to cause my lower teeth to move higher and more forward.
http://www.dropshots.com/LilClinkin#date/2008-01-25/18:15:32
-This shows a top-down view of the mandible (lower jaw). It's hard to explain exactly how the cut looks, but it is basically a really shallow-angled cut through the bone on each side. The red line shows the cut-line they will use, and the green shows the surface area they have of each piece of bone on which to manipulate it and adjust the angle. The goal is to tilt the bone upwards, so that my lower teeth will come up and forward.
http://www.dropshots.com/LilClinkin#date/2008-01-25/19:05:05
I'm getting kind of nervous because post-op is going to suck and be painful. Apparently it's standard to lose 5kg post-op, due to the trauma of the surgery and the fact I can only eat limited amounts of soft food afterwards.
edit. The pics don't work directly, so you'll just have to make do with links.
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PokerDoc88 Australia. Jan 25 2008 01:11. Posts 3527 | | |
for some spastic reason, full-stops (periods) are appearing in the middle of my links. If you see something like "lilcl.inkin", delete the ' . ' and then click away. |
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TwistedEcho  United Kingdom. Jan 25 2008 01:13. Posts 3539 | | |
i have an overbite too, but i dont care enough to get the surgery. It doesnt sound like too much fun.
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Sloverville United States. Jan 25 2008 01:53. Posts 232 | | |
how much is a surgery like this? |
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Timonga United States. Jan 25 2008 02:57. Posts 1074 | | | |
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