I know those who know me from the start of all this wow it does feel weird.
Let me make some observations about myself psychologically here. I expected recovery to be a lot tougher considering all the stuff i was having done.
But here are some observations I have to make. Yeah I'm basically day 2 of surgery, but I almost already feel I won't be quite satisfied by the results. Why? Well my chin is lining up to the tip of my nose (I have a very big nose) --now that might be ENTIRELY erroneous of an observation given the Splint if changing the shape of the mouth AND even though I can't really tell cause I'm so fat I probably have more swelling than an orangutan's anus.
Also, having seen now others get at least 2 chin wings to get their results I'm thinking it may be that a chin wing is necesarrily down the line for me too. But I'm quite surprised I'm experiencing a tad bit of buyer's remorse so soon.
I gotta tell you, one thing that really disappointed me is that Dr. Sinn said he'd have a visualization for me before surgery and then he left it till like 20 minutes before surgery and it wasn't a photographic picture it was just the skull.
I'm also a tad confused. He didn't execute Arnett's plan which called for something like 4mm upper and 7mm lower CCW (not counting any genioplasty).
Sinn's plan was 6 mm upper and 6 mm lower with CCW (how does that make sense? i thought ccw necessarily means that the lower is much bigger, but he also dropped the maxilla so maybe that brings it forward more?). That said Sinn did a 9mm genioplasty. I mean given that my lower jaw was moved so far back during extraction orthodontics I wonder if that's enough. I know it's 1.5 cm approximately. And I kept trying to drill into him how many mm I wanted far ahead tip of my chin aligned with the tip of my nose and provided tons of pics. Even a visualization done by a member of this forum.
See here's the thing, I've almost always found every surgeon doesn't give men that type of chin they're looking for, they hedge on the conservative (especially arnett and gunson). And I've heard the same greivance from almost every patient --I wish my surgeon had done more of genioplasty. I mean that is really one of the easiest parts of the surgery!!!
Also, I don't think Sinn doesn't anything for the notching, though he did say he sanded down the bone.
The HA bone graft went between the osteotomy to create width and he dropped the ramus not through osteotomy but just by angling it.
I've decided I'm going to drink only liquids for the entire month so I can lose a ton of weight and find out how these results look.
Now sure, judging results at 2 days is imprudent, but your results are pretty much fully there (at least what counts) at the 4-6 week mark. I've been on these forums long enough to know this is true.
