Day 6: One Week Check-up

Today's pic:

I am on my way to see my surgeon for my one week check-up!  Cross your fingers for awesome news!

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Great news from the docs!  All incisions look great and are healing perfectly.  I can stopping putting antibiotic ointment on my incisions, I can stop wearing the 'jaw bra', and I can finally wash my hair!  I did, however, get a small lecture on my weight decrease, so I'm stopping for a milkshake on the way home.  Also, time to start exercising my facial expressions.  Prepare for pics!  Next follow-up appointment is in two weeks, on August 20th.

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Meet my surgical team: Dr. Timothy Turvey and his Chief Resident, Dr. Carolyn Dicus Brookes.  I couldn't be more grateful to these two for the work they put into my jaw.

 

 

Dr. Turvey's Bio:

Dr. Turvey is Professor and chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the UNC School of Dentistry and at UNC Hospitals. He earned his BS degree at Villanova University and his DDS at Columbia College of Dental and Oral Surgery. He did an internship and residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center (Parkland Memorial Hospital) in Dallas. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. 

Dr. Turvey is the co-founder and co-director of the UNC Dentofacial Program and a member of the Craniofacial Center. He lectures in cleft palate, surgical-orthodontics, and craniofacial surgery. His major teaching involves supervising Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residents at the University of North Carolina Hospitals.  

Dr. Turvey's current research interests include: long-term stability and adaptation to the correction of facial deformities. His work has been published in over seventy books, journal articles, and book chapters. He is the co-author of Facial Clefts and Craniosynostosis.  

Dr. Turvey is Editorial Consultant for four journals, serves on the Advisory Committee of the American Board of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, and is chairman of the Long Range Planning Committee of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. He is also on the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Advisory Committee to the Commissioner on Dental Accreditation.

http://www.dentistry.unc.edu/ce/ahec/biosketch.cfm?EmployeeID=1961
 

Dr. Brookes' Bio:

Dr. Brookes attended Boston University's School of Dental Medicine where she received many awards for her outstanding abilities and potential.  She also spent time abroad in Colombia repairing cleft lips and palates.

Congratulations to Carolyn Dicus DMD 08, who received a scholarship award from the Foundation of the Pierre Fauchard Academy upon the recommendation of Dr. Jeffrey Hutter, senior associate dean, and the BUSDM Dean’s Office.

"This scholarship award has a proud tradition of many years for its presentation to dental students who have demonstrated the greatest potential for development into outstanding leaders in the dental profession," said Foundation Executive Director Frederick Halik in a letter to Dicus.

http://www.bu.edu/dental/2007/05/30/carolyn-dicus-dmd-08-awarded-for-leadership-potential/

Carolyn Dicus DMD 08 received the Outstanding Student Leader Award from the New England Section of the American College of Dentists. This award recognizes senior dental students for demonstrated leadership and outstanding scholastic performance.

Dean ad interim Hutter presented the award to Dicus at the American College of Dentists Luncheon held on Saturday, February 2 during Yankee Dental Congress.

"It is an honor and a privilege for me to present this award to Carolyn," said Dr. Hutter. "She truly deserves this honor. She displays the qualities inherent in this honor society which fosters development of higher professional achievements, strong leadership, high ethical standards, and social responsibility."

http://www.bu.edu/dental/2008/02/08/congratulations-carolyn/

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Punch lines!  Haha, thanks Erin!  Who knew that I would actually look forward to putting together puzzles?!?