Thread: Jaw Surgery?
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Old 11-25-2007, 01:57 PM
michaelY michaelY is offline
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Sounds like you have an edge to edge bite. I have seen many cases including MINE, in which an edge to edge can be corrected with the uses of braces only. The correction is not perfect but makes a big difference.

They use a palatal expander to widen your upper jaw and then use rubber bands to move the upper over the lower. A lot of times when wearing the palatal expander your upper jaw moves forward anyways.

I would find an ortho that has experience with all this before considering surgery. As this site recommends, sometimes you need 5 or 10 ortho opinions before finding the righ tone...
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