{"id":1726,"date":"2010-06-04T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2010-06-04T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T05:21:23","slug":"1726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/06\/04\/1726\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering if anyone out there knows anything about <strong>orthognathic surgery <\/strong>(as it is referred to in N America\/maxillofacial in England). I had a <strong>bimax osteotomy<\/strong> around 1995 (to treat malocclusion) and a few subsequent day surgeries to remove infected pins and the titanium plate things on both upper mandible.<\/p>\n<p>Lower right mandible has started giving me trouble and I think it may relate to impact exercise. The spot where they sawed or cut that jaw is pronounced to touch and v painful to touch and a bit achy. Is it possible for the jaw bone to shift? There are only 3 pins left and I think they are on that side, but I visualized them much higher up closer to the joint, which doesn&#8217;t entirely make sense. I&#8217;ll have to look up the surgical procedure and see exactly where they pin the lower jaw.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime: If you had orthognathic surgery do you recognize any of these descriptions &#8211; close to 15 years post-op! ?<\/p>\n<p>If you perform these surgeries do you know whether longer term the bones can shift or does the surgical site respond to the body being jolted ie. acrobatics&#8230; I never noticed anything like this before and have not received a biff or bump to that side of my jaw or is it possible for the spot where the jaw was broken to become infected a decade later? Or can the jaw get bone sequestrum?<\/p>\n<p>Merci!<\/p>\n<p>Oh and the lwr mandible was an advancement (either 12mm or 4mm, I can recall which) and I think it must have been BSSO (bilateral sagittal split osteotomy) technique which according to the lit was popular at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering if anyone out there knows anything about orthognathic surgery (as it is referred to in N America\/maxillofacial in England). I had a bimax osteotomy around 1995 (to treat malocclusion) and a few subsequent day surgeries to remove infected pins and the titanium plate things on both upper mandible. Lower right mandible has started giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,72,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bimax-osteotomy","category-jaw-bone-pain","category-orthognathic-complications","category-orthognathic-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}