Double Jaw Surgery experience

source: Google - TMJ

I’ve gone multiple non-surgical alternative to correct my temporomandibular joint (TMJ), I went to many specialists dentists; splint teraphy (Sp.KG) about a half year & having my braces (Sp.Ort) 3 years or so. But the jaw pain and migraines that come along with it. And then my orthodontist suggested that orthognathic surgery would be the only solution to permanently correct the issue. After further research, the ideal age to go through with this type of surgery would before the age of 25, now I’m being 26. My head starts to think the time is just now or never.

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The Day! An hour before the surgery

I did the surgery on Aug 3, 2020, the surgery runs for 6-7 hours: Waking up, there was nearly no pain in my face, but I had massive headaches the first 2 days, it was really hard to breathe, there’s a lot of swelling going on nasal congestion, and had to spit out a lot of blood clots from the back of my throat on day 2.

Day 4, I can finally go home

I’m allowed to take off the band’s when I eat or brush the teeth, but it’s so important to keep it on because or else the jaw would but really realized but it would regress and go back to its old way, so that the muscles the structure get used to a new jaw formation. When I would open my jaw it made me so lightheaded I almost passed out, I think the muscles were just in shock too haven’t been moving.

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It’s a big surgery the recoveries involved about 6 weeks to get to where we can go back to life its normal, but the first 2 weeks pretty rough been liquid diet and so that draw back for a lot of patience. The doctors said that swollen proses is about 4 at most 6 weeks or so (depends on your body). When I had my underbite, it was hard to kinda talk, I’ve got bunch of pain in my like muscles back there, cause my jaw kind of off to the side when I bite, that was a little difficult like kinda hard to chewed things properly. Now after the surgery, even bite down now havin my teeth touch together feels so much better

Aug 28, 2020

Kedua kalinya masuk Ruang OK

Waktu menunjukan pukul 07:00, suasanya rumah sakit begitu sepi, tentu saja karena ini merupakan hari Minggu.

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Aku dijadwalkan untuk menginap hari ini untuk melakukan orthognathic double jaw surgery pada hari senin pukul 08:00.

*keliling mencari pilihan makanan* akhirnya memutuskan untuk membeli bubur ayam.

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Tak terasa 45 menit berlalu, bersiap menuju IGD untuk melakukan pendaftaran swab yang telah dijadwalkan pada minggu pukul 08:00 s/d selesai. Prosedur operasi kali ini memang ada yang berbeda, semua pasien yang akan melakukan tindakan operasi harus melalui tes swab dan sebelumnya perlu di isolasi paling cepat 12 jam untuk waktu menunggu hasil. Tes swab pun dilakukan, sebuah alat kecil berbentuk cotton bud namun memiliki ujung seperti sikat yang dimasukan ke dalam lubang hidung dan dinding tenggorokan. Setelah selesai melalukan proses swab tersebut semua pasien langsung diarahkan ke dalam sebuah ruangan yang hanya bersekatkan tirai

*tes swab dimulai pukul 08:00 dan hasil baru keluar positif/ negatif jam 19:30*

Akhirnya mendapat informasi sekitar pukul 7 malam dengan hasil negatif (Thank God!) dan segera dipindahkan ke kamar inap. Tak pernah terbayang selama 12 jam harus berada di ruang isolasi rasanya benar-benar membosankan, pekerjaan yang dapat dilakukan hanya sebatas tidur dan main gadget saga.

Aug 2, 2020