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- May 17, 2021
Braces cost between $5000 to $7000 dollars. I'm not an orthodontist so I don't know if he needs jaw surgery, but the massive tooth gap could be fixed with probably a year and a half of braces and a retainer, at the previously mentioned price.
I am not an orthodontist, but braces have gotten cheaper and easier in the last decade or so. He could get an Invisalign treatment for maybe $3-4K and it would probably only take 6 months. And orthodontists are accustomed to treatment not being covered by insurance, so they'll usually put you on a good interest-free payment plan (they wouldn't get much business if they demanded $5,000 up front from every patient).
Sorry to keep being flabbergasted. But that document looks like, from three months after surgery to two years after surgery, they have to dilate for 50 minutes, three times a day. And then after two years they “only” have to do it three times a week.
How can anyone live like this? Three hours a day, every day, for two years? How can they have jobs, go to the gym, clean the kitchen? I just feel like 3x a day for an hour each time is an almost impossible time commitment for anyone.
How can anyone in the medical profession recommend this surgery? This seems obscene. “Primum, non nocere.”
Again, sorry for my provincial shock, but my God.
The surgeons might as well recommend it 100 times a week for six hours each time, it makes no difference: the troons aren't going to do it. None of them follow the schedule because it's painful and useless.
A part of me wonders if the surgeons prescribe deliberately unfollowable dilation schedules so that they can claim that any complications are the patient's fault for not following their aftercare instructions.
If you go to the SRS you can see my own similar horrified sperging about how barbaric the surgery is. The inside of the "vagina" is literally formed just by stitching some inverted penile (and sometimes scrotal) skin into the desired shape around a dildo-shaped object, shoving it inside the newly snipped-open hole, packing it, and hoping it scars into place. It's monstrous.