Rachel's been in her second set of braces for almost 2 years (coming up this month!) in anticipation of getting things moved and in position for her next big surgery, which we knew would be around the time she was 17-18 or there about depending on her facial growth.
Today, we saw Dr. Martin, Rachel's plastic surgeon. We saw him last in November 2019, where he sent us back to Dr. Garcia, her orthodontist for baseline X-rays and a return appointment for 6 months later. We had an appointment scheduled to see Dr. Martin in May 2020, but it was cancelled due to the COVID outbreak and was never rescheduled.
Here it is, a little over 2 years after we were supposed to return. It was a good appointment. Good to touch base and have her looked at.
Rachel is where she should be (growth wise) for moving forward with surgery. Dr. Martin thinks just by looking at her, and her bite, that he might be able to get away with just repositioning her upper jaw, and not the top AND bottom as some cleft kids have. Of course he won't know for sure until he gets CT Scans and puts it all into the computer for graphing and calculating. But overall this was great news!!
The problem - Rachel leaves for college in 8 weeks. There is no way Dr. Martin can get her on the surgery schedule and done and recovered in 8 weeks. So our hope/plan is to have surgery next May/June when Rachel is home for summer after her first year away at college. We just need to check with Dr. Garcia to make sure it's okay she sits in braces for another 11 months until then.
Profile pictures were taken today for her medical records. We have a video appointment in a couple of weeks with Dr. Martin after he checks in with Dr. Garcia.
