Not sure where to ask this but I had MMA (double jaw ) surgery two years ago and have had consistent pain in the lower left jaw from ear to chin . I have tried all sorts of natural and medical ways to take the pain away but it doesn t seem to work. Could the titanium plate be the source of this pain? My oral surgeon is willing to take it out but doesn t know if it has anything to do with the pain. It feels like the bone hurts.
Hello.your pain as per description seems to be neural in origin especially related to mandibular nerve. I can not say with purity that titanium plates are the cause of pain. But after MMA few patients get the pain u had described. first I would like to know whether the compression of nerve is there by titanium plate. It is very difficult to find out even by best non-invasive investigations. If plates are compressing the nerves your pain will be relieved permanently. I would like to know about any nerve injury during the MMA procedure. The nerve injury is one complication which can occur even by best precautions. Please consult a good neurosurgeon . Ur description of pain is very less. Its episodic, continuous, sharp, dull,location, radiating nature, etc . Will be deciding factor in your treatment plan.muscular pain after 2 yrs of surgery is not common. So I had ruled it out. And bone/ligament inflammation causing the pain in your case is also not possible after 2yrs. As their healing takes place by then. Take multicity like it B1,B2,B6, B12, calcium, magnesium, alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl L-carnitine . These help in nerve cell growth.