On March 12, Daniel and I went to False Creek Surgical Centre to meet with Dr. Javer. I told him a bit of my history and provided him with a couple of reports. I showed him the cone-beam CT scan and he showed us the cyst above my teeth. He said it was likely infected. Then he said to me, “you’ve probably been in a lot of pain.” (Once identified by someone who knows how to read the images, the cyst is obvious. On the image from Orbit Imaging, looking at the bottom row, you can see a circle that is a cross section of the cyst.)
I started to cry because this was the first time my pain had been acknowledged and validated by somebody in “conventional” medicine. And this was somebody who could probably help me. I knew that he was one of the best sinus surgeons in the world and it was such a sense of relief that he saw something worth looking at. Dr. Javer recommended that we get a CT scan of all the sinuses and meet him again. What still amazes me is that the CT technician worked through his lunch to do my scan and I met with Dr. Javer right afterwards. All in the same day!
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