Posted on 05/11/2011 6:20:54 AM PDT by smokingfrog
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Bristol Palin admits her recent change in appearance was due to a procedure - but not plastic surgery.
The 20-year-old daughter of 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells Us Weekly that she underwent corrective jaw surgery in December, a month after she finished third on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." Her face now appears thinner, with higher cheekbones and an angular jaw.
The new look, complete with Palin losing 5 pounds, was unveiled April 30 at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C.
"Yes, it improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons," she told the magazine for its May 23 issue, which will be on newsstands Friday.
Palin said she had the procedure so her jaw and teeth could properly realign.
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Speak for yourself. You do not speak for conservatives, you speak for your pathetic self.
So you lie too?
Also, just yesterday afternoon, my wife, son and I sat in an orthodontist's office and received a nearly identical diagnosis to the one Ms. Palin describes.
My 9-year-old son has a severe overbite w/cross-bite. His lower jaw is not aligned properly and is showing no signs that it will ever grow in to alignment on its own. At the end of this month he will have a ‘Herbst Device’ installed in his mouth as well as a ‘Nance Device’ and a full set of braces on his upper teeth.
The good news in our case is that the orthodontist thinks that by starting the ‘mechanical’ treatment early, my son will probably be able to avoid surgery later.
A side note regarding the latest in orthodontic equipment:
While the braces and Nance Device (which is a wire device designed to keep molars from rotating forward) look more or less painless, the Herbst Device, which apparently is now in pretty widespread use as a replacement for head-gear, is another story all together.
It consists of a pair of small two-piece telescoping metal rods with tiny little heim joints at each end. They resemble miniature shock absorbers, but without the springs or gas-charge.
In practice, one telescoping-rod assembly is installed on each side of the mouth. The heim joint at one end is screwed to a fitting on a metal cap/band secured to the upper back tooth. The other end of the rod is similarly mounted in the lower jaw, to the third tooth from the back.
With the mouth about three-quarters closed, the telescoping rods reach the short end of their limit of movement. As the mouth is closed further, the rods exact a force on the lower jaw, pushing it forward. The two parts of the telescoping rods seem to have a good bit of overlap, but I still think a really big yawn might cause them to ‘telescope’ apart.
In any case, that thing does not look like a comfortable device to have in one’s mouth even without considering the forces it will be applying to the teeth and jaws. I am already feeling for my son. He is a tough character, though, so he'll probably adapt just fine.
Bump!
People spouting excrement out of their pieholes having absolutely no clue or CLASS!
I once accomplished virtually the same thing by crashing a motorcycle in to a tree...
;-)
I had to wear headgear for 2 nasty years. But I’m thinking it was not as bad as the gizmo you’re describing. Hopefully all works out fine for your son.
Many comments on this thread are truely ignorant and classless.
Our son had to have hardware installed in his mouth because of a similar problem.
His jaw wasn’t forming properly and he was having chewing problems as well as speech problems. The speech problem almost landed him on medication and in special ed because the school was incompetent in their ability to assess problems. (Looooong story, semi-germane to the topic)
He’s an Honor roll student now.
Our great nation and the entire world is falling apart, and even Freepers are giving the highest reply totals repeatedly to this sort of trash. Do we need an American Idol ping list here? Sheesh, lemmings.
I think she was prettier before the “correction”.
That’s exactly the chin that our daughter ended up with after surgery. That is a horrible surgery to go through. They had to saw her upper jaw horizontally and her lower jaw vertically in two places. Shaved bone, separated bone and screwed it all back together. No one in their right mind would go through that for fun.
Crawl back under your rock.
Not guilty.
Her eyes really stood out to me, too. Not just with the comparison picture, but from all other pictures I’ve seen of her previously.
It is just too fun to mock you Palinistas.
Too watch you folks spin into orbit is a real hysterical treat.
It is a lot of laughs.
I didn’t require upper work. I avoided it with orthodontics. But they did have to fracture, carve and remove bone from my mandible. The only thing they did that was “cosmetic” was the way they approach the job. They do it all thru the mouth with no external incision. Except for dislocating the mandible where they have to shave the joint to get it to stop growing. There they make a small incision in front of the ear and use a cosmetic suture to help hide the scar.
>>>As conservatives, we take pride in honesty and not lying.
And who appointed you to define what is lying and what isn’t?
Bristol tells the truth and gets vilified for it. You haters gotta hate don’t you... schmuck.
Well, you a just a crass lowlife.
I’m not a Palinista, just find you and all your posts offensive.
LOL!!!
From “Schmuck.”
Have a great day.
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