I go for my consult with Dr. Gunson on Friday. I am nervous, anxious, and excited at the same time. I'm kind of expecting him to look at me and give me the same look that everybody in my orthodontist office gave me when they first got a look: "oh, let me see!" and then they get this look of "oh, ddaaayyuuummmm." It's disheartening, but at this point I'm used to it. I'm interested to hear what his plan is and how he'd fix things. Maybe I'm super eager to hear it at this point because I've basically been left in the dark with my team. My surgeon is almost not even giving me the time of day outside of answering a few emails. My orthodontist has tried to explain to me what he's doing, but it just doesn't sound right to me. Nothing is making sense to me. I don't know much about tooth size discrepancy and I don't understand the whole end game of what he's doing (he's making spaces in between my front teeth right now-- like, am I going to be left with space in between each front tooth? WTH?). And I for sure don't understand what is going on surgically. I have no clue what I would need to be done for a revision. I don't even know what my problem is right now-- is this a cross bite? Is it an over bite? I know I'm canted, but I think there is a bunch of other things going on too. I want to be told I have X wrong and Y is going to be done to fix it. That is what I got the first time around and I am seriously not getting any of that this time. And why? I dunno the answer to that, but I know I should probably be getting it. Hopefully Dr. Gunson can shed some light for me with what I need to know. A shame that I have to spend $300 for the consult (not to mention the overnight hotel stay, the day I have to take off of work, and the 10 hour round trip drive to Santa Barbara) to find this out instead of hearing it from my surgeon and ortho. I'm starting to doubt my faith in my team more and more. I keep trying to hang on, but as more time passes I just keep getting further and further from where I started thinking I would be OK going into this again with them. If I'm not, then that is going to open up a HUGE new set of problems for me. All I know is if I have to sort myself out with another surgeon like Gunson, I'm not going to be the one footing the $70,000 bill!
Few positives and negatives the last week or two: on the plus side, I am super stoked about the feeling almost all back in my chin. I feel like it's come so far and just a little more to go. On the not so great side, my weird gum sensitivity in a few spots continues (although I don't think as bad as it was when it started, but then again maybe I'm just getting used to it), and I started having some soreness just under my left nostril. I have an area there where I can totally see the plates/screws under the gums. Not in all their glory, but the gum is stretched so tight/thin over it that I can totally make the plates/screws outline out. When I touch it it gives me the heebie jeebies. When I first noticed it I didn't have a good feeling about it. I can't see plates/screws like that anywhere else at this point, and it looks like the gum is so tight over it that the screws might start popping out. So, the soreness is gum soreness I think, and maybe the first hints of the gum wearing and the hardware wanting to start poking out. Add that to the list of crap that just keeps going wrong and will need to be fixed (plate removal is another surgery and I'll be out of work for a little bit again). We'll see. I am not even going to bother sending my surgeon an email about it because she'll probably just brush me off and not make an appointment to see me anyway. Guess I'll get the most out of this consult and ask him about it.
Few positives and negatives the last week or two: on the plus side, I am super stoked about the feeling almost all back in my chin. I feel like it's come so far and just a little more to go. On the not so great side, my weird gum sensitivity in a few spots continues (although I don't think as bad as it was when it started, but then again maybe I'm just getting used to it), and I started having some soreness just under my left nostril. I have an area there where I can totally see the plates/screws under the gums. Not in all their glory, but the gum is stretched so tight/thin over it that I can totally make the plates/screws outline out. When I touch it it gives me the heebie jeebies. When I first noticed it I didn't have a good feeling about it. I can't see plates/screws like that anywhere else at this point, and it looks like the gum is so tight over it that the screws might start popping out. So, the soreness is gum soreness I think, and maybe the first hints of the gum wearing and the hardware wanting to start poking out. Add that to the list of crap that just keeps going wrong and will need to be fixed (plate removal is another surgery and I'll be out of work for a little bit again). We'll see. I am not even going to bother sending my surgeon an email about it because she'll probably just brush me off and not make an appointment to see me anyway. Guess I'll get the most out of this consult and ask him about it.
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