Have you ever had pins to set a broken bone? check it out

[rustydog]

Cool, huh? Of course the pins are out now, but I still have a gnarly surgery scar!

[xmas74]

1. My mom has numerous pins in her ankle.

They removed a few but the others will be in there for the rest of her life.

[rustydog]

10. My dad still has screws in a wrist he shattered in the '50's

:hi:

[xmas74]

13. Can he set off metal detectors?

The surgeon informed my mom that she might set off the more sensitive ones.

[livetohike]

2. I had a button in my fingernail to attach my tendon

back to the bone (ouch). Still not right and I have a lovely zig zag shaped scar :-(.

[rustydog]

3. Ow! that sounds like it hurt!

My ring finger is still slightly rotated in the wrong direction, just not as pronounced as it was when it broke!

[livetohike]

7. Can you use the finger normally? Is your hand affected at all?

This is my left hand and I am right-handed, so it isn't so bad, but I don't have a good grip in that hand and it has been almost two years since the accident. I had six months of therapy for it :-(.

Hope yours heals well and is back to normal soon.

[rustydog]

8. I've had 3 months of PT and still can't curl the finger completely.

I can still grab with it and have about 80% of my grip strength back so i can still hold onto the bad guys and control them.

[WCGreen]

4. I had my hip repaired after it was shattered in a car accident...

When they showed me the XRay, wit a great amount of pride, I might add, all I could see was my dad's junk screw, metal scrap and nail drawer....

It was that bad....

[commander bunnypants]

6. same here

an erector set in my left hip

CB

[rustydog]

9. Wow. How long was your down-time? was PT difficult?

:wow:

[commander bunnypants]

11. for me

I laid on my arse for 4 months.

CB

[WCGreen]

20. I was out for about two months....

Then, I just got going....

Walked through the limp...

And exercised at home....

[momophile]

5. I have metal on both sides of my jaw...

always confuses new dental assistants for a minute. "what the...?"

[rustydog]

12. Good Gawd, that sounds painful

:hi:

[momophile]

16. not bad, really

they are small and they just held my jaw together while it healed after being deliberately broken (by a surgeon). I can't feel them at all, but I do have problems with the nerves that were cut.:hi:

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

17. Orthognathic surgery?

Upper or lower? I'm trying to decide whether to hage it done or not

[momophile]

18. lower...

It's hard to say if I regret it or not. The dentist said I needed it to line up my bite. I guess if I had not had it done I'd have problems. However, because I had it done, I have problems - I'm sure of it. A few years after having the surgery, I developed bad headaches and have had them on and off ever since (16 years now). I also now have TMJ in the form of jaw spasms (only every now and then but they suck when they happen). And I have to sleep with a retainer now so I don't clench my teeth too hard. I also can't feel parts of my chin (it's not a problem except that if I dribble food, I can't always feel it - so now I wipe my chin a lot).

My dentist says that there is a good chance I would have had these problems without the surgery because my teeth would not have lined up. So was it worth it? Can't say. I know it was expensive (I was in high school at the time so my parents paid for it).

Do your research - something I did not do as I was young and trusted everyone involved.

Good luck in whatever you decide.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

19. Thanks. Mine would

be what's called a LeFort I, 3-piece osteotomy. Essentially moving my upper jaw forward, splitting it into three pieces to widen it, and screwing/glueing/calking everything back together.

When I was in high school in the late 70s the oral surgeon wanted to move my lower jaw back to correct my underbite. I'm glad I didn't do it because my lower jaw isn't over developed - my upper is under developed. Anyway - even with no TMJ involvement and less chance for long term numbness, it's a huge decision...

[nini]

14. 14 screws and a plate in my right leg (fibula) - still there

20 years with that in there.

I also had 3 longggg pins in my left foot to keep it in place while it healed. Those have been removed.

fun..

[leftofthedial]

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