Can you already feel this forced posture and neck abnormality release with the surgery?
Do you feel breathing in general improved, like if you take a deep breath, is it more satisfying getting a full breath and would you assume things like running etc may be easier?
How would you say your teeth contact is, did the surgeon manage to get a full good occlussion post op, or do you feel there is orthodontic work that needs to be done for this?
I'm glad you seem to have such great result and hope the swelling release soon and you can leave this behind you.
Dam Dogmatix, you are pretty much describing exactly how I feel with my breathing now.
Forced posture - Already correcting itself. My chin is now more comfortable point down to the ground instead of pointing upwards, which I assume I did because of an obstruction in my airways
Neck abdormality - My overall posture already feels like its getting better due to my jaws being able to sit in a "natural" position. I used to hunch my neck forwards combined with the pointed up chin.
Exercise - I can only assume that when I get back to exercise that it will be easier because my head,neck and jaws will be sitting in their proper position.
I have to say though my posture is still quite bad from years of arching my neck forward and only time will tell if it will all be fully reversed.
Teeth contact - He said my occlusion plane was perfectly flat now, which I'm assuming means that the plane is not too steep anymore? There is some orthodontics to do but he is happy with how the teeth are sitting and set there shouldnt be much to do. However my bite does not feel perfect. it feels like there is early contact on my right side before the left. But I was talking to the surgeon and he said that people can feel fractures of a mm difference in bite, so if hes happy I'm happy and maybe the ortho will need to do some compensating.
Thanks dogmatix. Most importantly I am happy with the functional result I have had to stop working due to this illness, the aesthetic is icing on the cake and I gotta say I'm enjoying my new face. I will post some pre op and post op pictures at some point. I'm really interested in showing people the comparisons to the dolphin imaging to real result. I was always a bit nervous that the imaging software was not going to replicate the actual result, because well they say they don't pretend soft tissue movement well.
Sorry dogmatix or someone with a good eye if you have a chance can you look at the video I posted and pause it at the very start and the very end and compare the before and after chin vertical position. I'm really confused because the chin point looks a good 5mm up vertically now. But the dolphin imaging says POG is 1mm down vertically for the original plan. Has the surgeon done some maxilla impaction or am I just not understanding the movements correctly? The overlays I have done of before and after cephs arent perfect but i don't think they are 6mm out?
One more thing. From the original ceph you can see that the border of my lower jaws are not lining up. I think he said this was asymmetry. In the after picture that appear much more symetrical. What has the surgeon done here? Has he shaved my jawline? Because that looks like a huge shave?
