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steph's jaw surgery blog: updates
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. Most of the questions I get lately have to do with numbness, my face, and retainers. So, here's the lowdown. The white circles (on the sides of my top lip) have probably 80-90% feeling. I don't notice that these are numb unless I pull on them or tweak them. The blue circles are the sides of my chin. I probably have 60% feeling there - and I don't notice it at all (however, every once in a while a sneaky piece of food lands there and I don't notice, hahahah). Finally, my face&...
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steph's jaw surgery blog: splint: take two
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Monday, August 30, 2010. The splint is improving. I played clarinet for a long while today (after taking the summer off hoping to help with jaw pain) and my jaw was quite sore and my head was throbbing - the instant I put the splint in at home my headache lessened. I'm still not overly enthused about it - I'm not sure it's doing all the good it was supposed to. It's also giant and looks quite humorous in - I look like a linebacker. I'll post a picture as soon as I remember. That would make me so sad!
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The Blender is My Friend: Week 4 - Back to Work Take 2!
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The Blender is My Friend. A post-surgery blog and a place to share what I ate and made following my lower jaw surgery. I watched way too much of the Food Network during my 2 weeks at home. Bad idea in terms of hunger, but it has inspired me to make my liquid diet much more interesting! Thursday, April 16, 2009. Week 4 - Back to Work Take 2! 90% gone, but continues to shift around. Currently I feel it's worst today. Slowly regaining feeling which leads to slight burst of pain. April 17, 2009 at 4:15 AM.
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The Blender is My Friend: Pre-Surgery Summary
http://blenderismyfriend.blogspot.com/2009/04/pre-surgery-summary.html
The Blender is My Friend. A post-surgery blog and a place to share what I ate and made following my lower jaw surgery. I watched way too much of the Food Network during my 2 weeks at home. Bad idea in terms of hunger, but it has inspired me to make my liquid diet much more interesting! Monday, April 6, 2009. Joined the World of Adults with Braces. This was great news both in the obvious way and financial way. The estimated cost was sliced in half! Classic moment in the waiting room. While getting my post...
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Smiling Bella: Website review: BracesReview.com
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1,500 German orthodontic fetishists agree: this jaw surgery blog rocks. Saturday, January 16, 2010. Website review: BracesReview.com. Please note: this is a sponsored review. I just got a new sponsor for my blog, a site called www.bracesreview.com. The link is in my sidebar as well.) They asked me to review their site, and I thought it might be useful for my readers if I took a spin and reported on what the site has to offer us jaw surgery folks. And updates on how people are recovering. It's a smaller f...
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steph's jaw surgery blog: Anniversary
http://theteethofsteph.blogspot.com/2010/07/anniversary.html
Thursday, July 1, 2010. Handy, because I kept the braces to make a Christmas ornament out of (bwahaha). Once the braces were all off they let me take a break and then started the sanding process. That took a long time, and the techs did most of it but then Dr. Rick did the final touches - they also added something to one of my teeth, because it had a chip in it - so it would look full. Now onto the fun part - my anniversary! Here's my long-winded update. Jaw opening: I have good and bad days. Good da...
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Smiling Bella: A week in pictures
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1,500 German orthodontic fetishists agree: this jaw surgery blog rocks. Monday, February 25, 2008. A week in pictures. The first week, post-surgery, in oh-so-flattering full-colour. This picture was taken right after the surgery. A friend of mine commented, "You look so tired in this picture.". I responded, "I wasn't tired. I was stoned.". And the swelling begins. I loved those ice packs like my own mother. Determined to keep a positive attitude. After all the high- fiving. I switched to a thumbs up.
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Smiling Bella: January 2011
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1,500 German orthodontic fetishists agree: this jaw surgery blog rocks. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. I just got an email from someone named Rob, about a new kind of feeding pouch for people who have their jaws wired shut:. Zip-n-Squeeze is no longer in business or manufacturing their products. We have developed a new product that works a lot like them, the NutriSqueeze pouches. You can find them at. Https:/ www.craniorehab.com/. Thanks and good luck to all of you on your surgeries and recoveries! Prepari...
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The Blender is My Friend: BLT Soup
http://blenderismyfriend.blogspot.com/2009/04/blt-soup.html
The Blender is My Friend. A post-surgery blog and a place to share what I ate and made following my lower jaw surgery. I watched way too much of the Food Network during my 2 weeks at home. Bad idea in terms of hunger, but it has inspired me to make my liquid diet much more interesting! Thursday, April 16, 2009. But there must be easy and tasty soups out there that are reminiscent of "real" meals. I did a search and found the BLT Soup on the Food Network website. Adapted from Paula Deen on the Food Network.
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Smiling Bella: Navigating jaw surgery: top topics
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1,500 German orthodontic fetishists agree: this jaw surgery blog rocks. Friday, December 25, 2009. Navigating jaw surgery: top topics. Don't forget about all the links in my sidebar, including links to other jaw surgery bloggers. If you don't see what you're looking for in my posts or links, feel free to email me at smilingbella at gmail dot com. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. June 22, 2011 at 3:41 AM. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. July 12, 2011 at 6:48 AM.
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