Holidays and come and gone at this point.
Its been almost six months since undergoing my surgery and I'm still attending physiotherapy.
I'm better than what I was when I first saw the therapist but its been slow going and quite honestly I'm not working as hard as I used to on it. Mostly I think it is because my lack of jaw movement doesn't really affect me as much as it did before in my day to day life. I hardly notice now that my jaw motion is limited. I use my jaw jack for stretching and see the actual physiotherapist once a month- since the jaw jack is supposed to be a replacement for my appointments.
I started seeing the therapist with a max opening of 15 mm and now I'm up to 30 mm, but I can't open from a closed mouth to 30 mm- I've got to stretch it first. Without stretching I can open my mouth from a closed position to about 25-28 mm.
I've seen the surgeron too since my last post, he is happy with my results and I'm basically done seeing him until I get my braces off. Once my braces are off I go back to the surgeon to have an implant for my missing incisor tooth.
There is no set date for braces to come off either at this point and in May it will have been three years with my wire mouth.
So to sum up this update I'm not back to pre surgery jaw movement, still in physiotherapy, and there is no date for braces to come off. But on the positive side the feeling in my chin and bottom lip is getting better!
