Hello!
First of all, english is not my first language so I'll try my best to explain myself
I'm a female, 39 years old. I've been thinking about having orthognathic surgery for more than 10 years. This was me before having any procedure done:
Hated my profile, my weak chin and my long lip. But I loved my teeth show. So last year I decided to have a sliding genioplasty and a lip lift. And this is me right now:
My profile looks much better now but still have a weak chin. My proportions are better after the lip lift but now I show too much teeth (although I'm starting to like it). These are the pictures that I had taken in Alfaro consult 1 month ago:
And last week I had my gums fixed (he asked for it because he prefered that I had it done before invisalign and surgery) and now I don't have a super gummy smile like before:
I still have to start the invisalign process next month. The thing is I'm having serious doubts about doing this. I'm 39 years old and I've always looked younger. My biggest fear is to look older and to show little teeth after impaction. Also the changes in my nose and to show too lower teeth. I've seen pictures of his surgeries and they generally end up with little show of teeth. I know showing too much teeth may not be the ideal but I love it. And I prefer too much teeth over over impaction a million times) So after more than 10 years wanting to do this, I'm having serious doubts right now. I consider myself attractive and I'm afraid to lose that, also to look less cute. I'm going crazy thinking about this and I need some honest opinion. Because there are also some things about my face that I hate, like my profile.
He agreed my genioplasty doesn't look good because now my chin sticks out to much of my face. He didn't tell me much but he is going to fix it, also impaction and bsso.
After fixing my gums (gingivectomy ?) my orthodontist think that maybe is not a good idea to have maxillary impaction and that she can impact my teeth like 2 or 3 millimeters with invisalign. But I'm not sure if he will perform only bsso on me, because I'm sure to his standards I still show too much teeth/gums.
Does anybody knows if he performs alar stitch to avoid the changes in the nose ? Almost in all the before afters of his patients I see a lot of changes in the nose. And that is one of the biggest reasons that I'm having so much doubts, because I love mine. By the way, I need to fix my septum and he offered to do that in the same surgery.
Sorry for the super long post and the spam of pictures and I hope it makes sense
Thank you in advance!!
Edit: I edited the title of the post, hope you don't mind