I had double jaw surgery on July 23rd and I am very unhappy with my results. I am now 2.5 months post op and with the more swelling that decreases the more unhappy I get. I had an underbite and my surgeon decided to move both my upper and lower FORWARD! I already had a long jaw start with so I told him I was not comfortable with that but he assured me everything would turn out great. He is a well known surgeon considered one of the best and was referred to me by both doctors and patients so I trusted him.
His original plan was to move my upper 6.3mm and only rotate the bottom. I asked him for a chin reduction but he kept insisting that I did not need one. From all the research I did I had seen that chin reduction gave a better result. Specially since he wasn't planning on moving my bottom back. As we discussed more options the plan to move the lower 1.5mm came up. That meant the upper would have to move forward a little more to 7.5mm instead of 6.3mm. This was supposed to open up my airway even more. He still didn't want to do a chin reduction but I insisted. This was only two days before my surgery. We agreed on that plan and I went home.
I couldn't sleep all night because I was so worried. I had heard cases where with such aggressive upper jaw movement people ended up with a chimp look but he assured me I wouldn't. I also told him that I didn't want my bottom jaw to look longer but he said it wouldn't and not to worry. That night I decided not do go through with that option so I emailed him saying to go back to his original plan and not move my lower forward and to also reduce my chin vertically. He only responded to the email about the chin saying he didn't recommend reducing it too much. I thought, he knows better so I agreed.
The next day was surgery. He said he received my email but again told me not to worry about the bottom coming forward because it was only a little bit and that it would be ok. I was still uneasy but I still thought, he knows better.
Well, 2.5 months later and I regret agreeing with him so much. I had shown him plenty of pictures of results I liked and he said he understood what I wanted. He gave me completely the opposite. I know have an even worse ante-face than before, and it does not look good on me, specially since I don't have prominent cheekbones under my eyes. I'm so devestated. To think I went through all of that and spent all of that money to end up this unhappy. I am trying to get him to fix it. It's not fair!!! I'm very anti-anteface!
Not only is my lower jaw still long, if not longer, but now my upper jaw protrudes as well. And he only reduced my chin very little so it still looks super pointy and ugly. He has not agreed to fix this. I don't know what to do. I don't have the money to pay for a revision on my own.
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