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he immediately got defensive and told me that it wasn't necessary because it was so asymmetrical 
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and do your own research so I really wanted to confirm what the condition of that left joint was I went behind his back he told me that my right joint was severely degenerated and that if I disagreed with him and tried to argue with him about it but I would have been implanted with something that my body would be I consulted with 5 different doctors then I had an appointment with the other surgeon and I'm so glad that I didn't do that and on the left side and I knew that I had an allergy to jewelry if I hadn't argued with the professionals because I knew the prosthetics had nickel in them bilateral temporomandibular joints show severe degenerative changes and if they do looking at my bite my whole chest was broken out in hives that the left joint did start to deteriorate after the first surgery and that I'll be fine with the ones that have nickel in them because they're the professionals and I saw that it said that we could do a joint replacement on that side in 6 months and he told me if for some reason and don't let them make you feel like you can't I wasn't too fond of the idea of potentially and again down here so that was my best option which is a main component in the prosthetic and I went to an allergist and had her order it for me he said Lillian and the other one knew how to do joint replacements are severe for the patient's age and I came back not only allergic to nickel but cobalt so I ended up with 2 surgeons in Pittsburgh that were going to essentially the guy who was gonna do the joint replacements but my left one was completely fine so he told me that I'd only need my right joint replaced or have them forwarded one time to another practitioner you know your body better than anybody degenerative changes in both temporomandibular joints before I decided on Dr Sullivan not only would I have had the complete wrong surgery to move my lower jaw forward and make it even with the right side I will no longer be your treating surgeon or provide any further evaluation all of which gave me different plans when I got my results stop arguing with the doctors’ plans for my surgery so I confronted him I would have suffered I couldn't find one single surgeon that was able to do both surgeries and to just let them handle everything please contact our office to make sure that I don't need the all titanium prosthetics and he asked me if I had anxiety he would fire me constantly having an allergic reaction to The surgeon told me it wasn't necessary and refused to order it for me given the course of events because one knew how to do upper jaw surgery and I think that we should do a metal allergy test they would do a saggital split osteotomy who was going to do the double jaw surgery portion make sure you're part of the planning process I was told by so many people to and here's why ask any questions when I first started consulting with people then the next issue I ran into was wanting to get metal allergy testing done I feel like any normal person would probably just believe that ordered me a CT scan to check the degeneration in my jaw joints aka dismiss me as a patient I wore a nickel necklace to my appointment with the double jaw surgeon that surgeon kept his promise and fired me having to go back for another jaw surgery 6 months later I was trying to stay close to home don't let doctors gaslight you it was kind of obvious that one joint was definitely worse than the other one and he told me that he disagreed with the radiologist if you'd like to have a copy of your records so guess what I did because you might save yourself since the other surgeon refused to order me metal allergy testing find somebody else collaborate on the surgery and operate on me together luckily my test results were sent to my patient portal so I said I disagree with you I said no I have a nickel allergy