So most of you guys know my story. I had four bicuspids removed in preparation for jaw surgery. It's been hell for my mind and life cause my arches are so small my tongue can't even sit inside my mouth properly which lead to massive panic attacks. I've lost all the interdental tissue between ALL of my teeth, partly cause the teeth at the roots level are too far and partly because of the massive movement done as an adult. I was never warned about ANY of this from my f**kFACE orthodontist.
Anyway, I've learned to live with it after going mad essentially, getting addicted to ativan, going to rehab, going on other meds (other things happened in my life at the same time, pretty unfortunate traumatic things I won't discuss right now).
One thing I'm freaking out about and I'm just wondering if there are any veterans who've had this. I have no support for my upper lip the way my jaws are set right now NOR for my bottom lip so if I were to just close my bite, my lips fall inward and almost disappear. It's very pronounced and noticeable and I NEVER had this before the bite was "decompensated"or whatever it's called for jaw surgery.
Now my ortho says when I have surgery and the jaws are set right i'll have lips again, but I'm kind of paranoid it won't happen. I mean will the movement of rotating upwards and out both jaws create support for my lips? How will they rest? Right now I look if I were to really relax my mouth like one of those old people who don't have lips. And I used to have really full almost Tom Hardly like mouth at least with full lips. This is so bad I almost think the only solution "might" and a strong might be to to grow my jaws with DO and then have implants put in --but f**k opening the spaces.
Sorry, I guess I'm going a bit Rico here but that's what this forum is for right? Warning others too to not have extractions. EVER. Any of you had this feeling of loss of support of lips both upper and lower and then it was fixed after surgery?