Many of you have asked about my pending oral surgery. Thank you all for your concerns. To be perfectly honest, I don't think it's going to happen this summer. Things got messed up and we're just running out of time. My father wants me to be irate about this and I'm disappointing him. I rather unconcerned about the whole thing. Before I left school, I had the general feeling that God was going to do a lot of cool things this summer. He hasn't (and won't!) let me down.
Just so y'all have an idea of what's going on in my mouth, I'm going to try to give a general description of stuff. I've had braces since the end of sixth grade, so that's about nine years now. I've had them on so long that I hardly notice them anymore. As a child, I had a tongue thrust. This means that my tongue had a tendency to want to push out on my teeth. This caused me teeth to shift forward and mess up my bite. We've been fighting that ever since.
The surgery I'm supposed to have is to move my top and bottom front teeth together so that I have a correct bite.
They are planning on breaking the bones in my upper and lower jaw, repositioning them to the correct
place, and wiring my mouth in place so that I can heal. I'll have my mouth wired shut for six to eight weeks. After that, I'll have braces for another year or two and then I should be done with them. Of course, I'll still have to deal with retainers, but that's no biggy.
I'm rather unconcerned about all this. It doesn't bother me that the surgery might be postponed because I believe that's God's will. I don't really care if my teeth are perfect either. I think it would be a waste of ten years work if they aren't, but I can deal with that. My big problem right now is that I have a hard time biting into things because my teeth don't meet in the front. A lot of the time it makes me a sloppy eater and it's just a pain. That's my only real gripe and the only thing I'm concerned about.
So, thanks for listening. If there are any questions, just drop me an email.
