X-ray before and after

Cicily hates the x-rays, so she always screams and has an open mouth, which makes it difficult to tell what her jaw actually looks like! But, you can note how the mandible is further out in the second slide than in the first and you can see how the distractors are slid all the way to the bottom of the distractor body. Comparing both profiles is pretty amazing. Look in a straight line from her forehead to her chin- quite an improvement!

Also of interest is the difference in Cicily's right and left middle ears. In the first slide you can see a small opening of an ear canal (it's in the middle of the darker white area on the bottom of the cranium-where the ear is). The second slide is Cicily's left side which has complete canal atresia and all you can see is the same darker white area without any ear canal opening.