Hello Seenie,
Thank you for your comment and helping me find this post again.
I am yet pain free ie eight years since my surgery in 2013. I have been fortunate about it.
The closest I have come to getting pain post surgery is when for some reason I opened my mouth too wide (while cleaning tooth cavities after a meal!) I felt some sort of very mild pain. But after I stopped opening my mouth too wide the pain went off.
Regards,
- Manoj