Surgery with Dr Hernández Alfaro Before and After as requested by Rico and Grego

[Langpam]

Remember I am one of the oldest members on this forum. My surgery was on 12th November. I have tried to upload photos and hopefully it has worked!!
My surgery was anticlockwise rotational bimaxillary with genioplasty to cure my sleep apnoea. I have not used my CPAP machine since the day before surgery

Photo 1:  2 hours before surgery http://imgur.com6fz8BM

Photo 2: 6 days post surgery :     http://imgur.com/SVJ3yEv

My surgery was to increase my airways. It did that. The improved profile was a bonus. Now my nose has the support from the advanced maxilla and looks smaller

[Rico]

Thx, but..

typo in first link
How are your nerves / feeling on the face ?

[Langpam]

Photo 1 2hours before surgery http://imgur.com/6fzp8BM

Photo 2 6days after surgery http://imgur.com/SVJ3yEv

Any better?

My God, if Dr Alfaro want to advertise he would choose someone who knew what they were doing, lol

[Gregor Samsa]

The profile does indeed look improved and I can see what you said about the nose as well. It's interesting that you had surgery without having any orthodontic work first. I think you might be one of the first on this forum that has done it like that although I knew beforehand that Alfaro is one of the few surgeons that offer a surgery first approach.

[Langpam]

Actually this is partly why I chose him. Sailer said that no orthodontics would be necessary but I had a Class 2 malocclusion, so how does that work??
The surgeon in London wanted me to have 18 months of orthodontics pre op and 6-12 afterwards. Ugh
Now I am using Invisalign and have just started on tray 2. It's a pain, but I have 27 trays and my orthodontist in Malaga (recommended by Dr Hernández Alfaro) said that I'll need to change the trays every five days, because teeth move much faster after surgery. Dr Hdz Alfaro is directing the orthodontic treatment from Barcelona

[PloskoPlus]

Thanks for sharing this.  I think we need to dispel the notion that jaw surgery is only for 20 years olds.

[Langpam]

Thank you.

I had lots of concerns due to my age, increased risk of nerve damage being one of them.

It's difficult to explain, but on meeting Dr Hdz Alfaro (albeit via Skype) I believed that with him the risks were reduced. Meeting him in person confirmed everything. You really do need to trust your surgeon.

After all, there is a significant difference between an operation of 5+ hours and one that was to take less than two hours. The recovery time had to be shorter. I am now 18 days post op and feeling wonderful.

[Rico]

You are lucky, at least he can perfrom such surgery. In my case 2/3 surgeons, can't

[Langpam]

What is your case?

[Rico]

Malar bone osteotomy and ION decompression. Demanded very low risk of any permament damage, especially to the eye

[Langpam]

Best of luck with your search.

Hope you'll be as lucky as I was to meet Dr Hdz Alfaro

[Lazlo]

langpam please do another set of after after photos maybe in another couple of weeks! Very interesting. Congrats on your great result!

[Langpam]

Thank you Lazio, I shall, maybe after my one month post op appointment.

[Langpam]

Bimaxillary plus genioplasty  20 days post op.

Okay, Lazio, I've posted another post op profile, though I haven't quite got the angle right, since it was a Selfie.
However, I'm still pretty happy and most importantly of all I no longer suffer from severe obstructive sleep apnoea.
Thanks go to Dr Hernández Alfaro and his team

http://imgur.com/7C9TpKw

[Langpam]

Received official confirmation (after sleep study) that my sleep apnoea is cured.
Great news. So happy