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General Category => General Chat => Topic started by: Cmonster on June 13, 2012, 12:43:28 PM

Title: What are you looking to achieve aesthetically/funtionally/etc from jaw surgery?
Post by: Cmonster on June 13, 2012, 12:43:28 PM

Hi everyone :)

Would love to know why everyone here is getting or considering jaw surgery? What are your main issues? Is it aesthetics/function/both?

Also do you have an image in your head of how you will look post-op?

Title: Re: What are you looking to achieve aesthetically/funtionally/etc from jaw surgery?
Post by: stevek216 on June 13, 2012, 12:57:18 PM

This is retrospective for me, but I'll still respond.

My main purpose in getting the surgery was to correct functional issues, in the sense that if my bite did not pose a functional problem I wouldn't have gotten the surgery.

HOWEVER.  I was looking forward to the surgery intensely and the reason for this was the aesthetic change.  I was very self conscious of my underbite.

I figured I wouldn't look too different, but I had no idea what I would look like.

Title: Re: What are you looking to achieve aesthetically/funtionally/etc from jaw surgery?
Post by: streo on June 13, 2012, 02:22:43 PM

Eat, sleep, and talk properly.  I cannot believe how anti-social I've become because of the last reason.  I sometimes sound like I've had a stroke or something.