Toothsome goodness

[reynardo]

That was actually rather sneaky!

I'm involved in a study where I use a tooth brace nightly to move my bottom jaw forward relative to my top jaw. The last time the guy in charge adjusted it, it was too far - for the last two weeks I have had a painful jaw and trouble getting to sleep and it hurt.

So today I rocked up for the check, and told the guy, and it turns out they expect this from every patient. It's their way of finding out from the patient when the movement of the bottom jaw has hit the furthest possible point. He then would back the last adjustment to about 50% of what it had been, (so I'm at 3 1/2 progressions forward instead of 4) and told me to just go on this.

As I'm already getting a very much improved level of sleep from this, I'm not upset by the methodology, and I can see why it is necessary. And, if in 6 months and after another stay-over-and-have-electrodes-monitor-my-sleep I think my mouth can handle a further adjustment, then it can be done. The total adjustment level is 5, so I can go quite a long way forward. And I now no longer drive my poor bed-partner to sleeping in another room, which is a good thing as my beloved lederhosen doesn't have a spare room at his place that he can sleep in.

Comments

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Huh, you're a lot more zen about it than I would have been. A study is all very well, but like hell would I have put up with no sleep for more than a few days. Yay for having it sorted though!

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Ah, well - I guess at least now you know. And after the extremes of this, I imagine the current setting seems positively pleasant. *snug*

Here's to relaxed, painless sleep for all...

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

It sounds painful. Are you doing this via an orthodontist? will it be a permanent fix?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

It's through the Sydney Dental Hospital and some sleep studies at Sydney Uni. It was a tooth brace or a face-hugger.

(And yes, if I had ended up with a CPAP, I would have gotten hold of a real-sort-of face-hugger and attached it to the front.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

oh geeeees both those two face huggers are scary....

my sympathies though know it must be painful and annoying, my offspring has been wearing braces/retainers for a couple of years now...which hasn't worked entirely so they are doing an op in a few months and chopping some of the jaw.