THE 2ND OF JULY!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Oh my gosh I can't believe it
I am having double jaw surgery on the 2nd of July 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO I'm so happy I'm in shock I'm actually shaking! (although that may be from the 2 cups of coffee I've had this morning, haa but anyway!) It's so perfect yaaayyy
I got a letter in the post this morning which was a copy of a letter my orthodontist sent to my surgeon and it said in it 'I also noted that she has a date in July from the list that was circulated. Many thanks for managing to squeeze her in, hopefully she will be able to complete some of her gap year in Australia as planned.' how amazing! So then I rang up to confirm that I actually have a date in July and to find out more, and the receptionist said it's going to be the 2nd of July and that I'll get more information in the post soon! I am over the mooooooon
Heres the letter that my orthodontist sent:

I hope you can read that:) I also want to say a massive good luck to Meesh because her jaw surgery is today!

I am 100% surgery ready!

Yesterday my orthodontist put my surgical hooks on!

I look like a robo mouth.

but I don't care because now this means if any cancelations come up in June/July I'll just be able to go for it straight away and they'll be nothing holding me back.
My orthodontists been amazing as well, shes done everything that she can do to help me get an earlier date. shes emailed my surgeon, and now she says shes going to write a letter saying that I have the surgical hooks on and that I am ready for whatever date he can offer!
yaaayyy!
Normally I would be really annoyed to have so much extra metal in my mouth for no immediate reason, but I just so desperately want an earlier date so that I can go to Australia as soon as I can. So I am willing to have any amount of metal in my mouth in order for that to happen:)

smiling profile photo, with clenched teeth.

One incredibly sad thing is, that now I can't have colours on my braces!
That was the one fun thing about braces.....
but It's because they fall off during the surgery.

tongue worries

Hello my beautiful jaw friends!
I just wanted to make a post because I've recently been having some worries about how much my surgeon told me he was going to move my jaws......
I've seen on other peoples blogs that part of the reason they are having jaw surgery is because their tongue doesn't fit on the roof of their mouth, and so the top jaw needs to be moved forward to make space for their tongue.
Well, mine doesn't fit in the roof of my mouth AT ALLLL.. when it's just resting, it lies between my top and bottom teeth, or sometimes behind my bottom teeth.
The reason I'm worried is that the surgeon is moving my top jaw forward by only 2mm, and the majority of the movement is going to be in my bottom jaw. I don't think 2 mm more room will be enough to make my tongue fit, and if my tongue still doesn't fit after, I was thinking maybe it would push my teeth into a bad bite again...?! eeek! well anyway I'm going to ask about it in my next appointment but I was just wondering if this is a rational worry or not. I think this is all called 'tongue thrust' but I have no idea really I don't understand it very well!!

Annoying but exciting appointment, and prediction photo!

I had my joint appointment with my surgeon and orthodontist yesterday..........dun..dun...dunnnn..
I'm so annoyed!! and disapointed, and upset and cross
well, I have been hoping for months and months to get my surgery in July, right after my art course ends, as my teeth are already surgery ready and I want to be recovered as soon as possible because I'm planning an extended trip to Australia to live with my cousin and work there. Anyway, I want to go to Australia as sooon as I'm well enough and I was hoping to be able to go at the end of this year! But, my surgeon said he wouldn't have any spaces until september......:( nooo and also, they said I wouldn't be able to travel to Australia for at least 6 months after the surgery, meaning I could only go to Australia in April next year and I would have half the time there than I thought.. He did say that if there was a cancelation they might be able to fit me in sooner, so I'm hoping and praying that there will be, and that I can have surgery in July! It would make such a massive difference to meee! I've not even planned anything for July and August so I feel like they'd just be wasted months, but I think if I do have to have surgery in September I'd just work for those months and try and raise money for going to Australia:)
The appointment was exciting at the same time though, they were discussing how they were going to move my jaws and the close minute detail that they looked at my face with really impressed me! They scrutinized every millimetre so carefully.... Anyway, they ended up saying that they'd move my top jaw about 2 millimetres forward and about 2 millemetres upwards, (I didn't realise they were planning on doing this! They said this would be because moving my jaw forward would mean more of my gum would show when I smiled, and so this movement would be to compensate for that. I did stress that I like how much gum shows at the moment though, and they said that it would stay the same and wouldn't change. Although my surgeon said that he thought my smile was too gummy and he thought my top jaw should be moved upwards by 3mm! I said I didn't agree with that though and my orthodontist didn't agree either), and my bottom jaw is going to be moved back by 6 millimetres! I can't believe how much that is!!
I asked my surgeon if he was planning to use that stitch on my nose and he said that he always uses it unless the person has a really skinny nose. So I'm really pleased about that!:)
They also gave me the prediction photo, It's amazing!!! I can't stop looking at it. It's so wierd though because I kind of feel like I look like that already, and when I realise I actually don't its a shock! So I think after the surgery I might just feel more like myself. My orthodontist said she thought I'd end up looking nicer than the photo though so thats incredible I can't imajine how it could be better!!
Here is a picture of me today (I'm sorry if it scares you I look vile with no makeup and bad hair but oh well!)

Heres the prediction photo! I hope you are all getting on really well and that you are happy:)

Orthodontist appointment

I had an orthodontist appointment yesterday, it was a really exciting appointment!
Firstly, she showed me the molds she'd taken last time I'd had an appointment, and she put them together so that they fitted together in the correct way, so I could have more of an idea what my teeth will look like after the operation. It was so wierd to see my teeth in that position, it looked like they were someone elses teeth! I can't believe my teeth will eventually look like that it's so hard to imajine...
Then she took one of my brackets off because she said it was interfering with my bite with how it was placed, so she put it back on slightly differently. It's so crazy that the minute differences in the placement changes how your teeth move so much! They're so clever that they can work out how to move them and everything.
Then she did something a bit scary/dramatic, she said she needed to 'reshape' my bottom teeth a bit so that my molds would fit together a little bit better, I got a bit panicked by that thinking she was going to chizzle my teeth down or something! but she just got this thing that looked a bit like a nail file and scraped it between my teeth. I wasn't very nice but it wasn't painful it just felt really gritty! and also, while she was doing it I could see dust blowing out into the air!! I think that was tooth dust!! It made me realise how much you have to trust your orthodontist though, I was scared she might do it too much and that I'd end up with little pegs for teeth. but actually you can't really see much of a difference, the gaps that she made are soo tiny.
She also did new photos, and measured all of my face and I got another x-ray done. My next appointment is in March, and it's a joint appointment with my surgeon. That appointment is when I'm going to get my surgery date! yayyy so exciting
here are some new-ish photos! I dyed my hair dark woooo

Current teeth update

I didn't know what those little gold hooks were on my braces, so I asked my orthodontist and she said they are going to be for putting elastic bands on later!:S ooh errr

nosey noses

Ok! I have a question for post surgery people:) How many of you had an 'alar stitch'? Did you find that it made your nose widen less after the surgery? Would you recomend it? This is one of my main worries, because my nose is already quite wide and I don't want to end up with a massive nose..haa
I think I'm going to ask my surgeon if he was planning on using one next time I see him:) Originally he said the changes to my nose would only be positive though, so I don't know if that means he was thinking of using the stitch thing, or maybe he just thinks that wide noses are good I don't know...or maybe he was just being optimistic.. :S The last time I saw my surgeon was in January (I think..) so thats why I haven't asked him about this yet!!