So dudes and dudettes. I mean while there's a certain bit of swelling and s**t that has to be reduced I'm like wow results of
jaw surgery have been "okay" like maybe I'd rate this procedure a B-/C+ cause its noticeable to me and a few friends but it's nothing revolutionary. Also, it only brought my chin in balance with my upper lip and nose didn't give me the Jason Statham thing at all.
So now I'm realizing I need a bigger set of goals cause I want dramatic change. In my sights now: chin wing, modified lefort WITH augmentation of HA paste on brow and orbital rim. And a motherf**kin rhino. Let's make this thread about people and the procedures that let to radical change. Jaw surgery in itself is not much.
As someone who has had two-jaw surgery, sliding genio, rhinoplasty, midface lift, lip lift, fat grafting, chin pad resuspension, eye ptosis repair, and neck lift, I think that plastic surgical procedures can make a big difference in appearance. There are generally, I think, trade-offs. In some procedures I evaluated that I improved one thing, and other issues emerged out of that. In other cases, my assessment is that the improvement was straight-forward. For instance, with orthognathic surgery, I saw the improvement only, as my baseline condition was a very large underbite and, I think, a very, very long face. Any accumulation of soft tissue related to boney reduction was incomparable with the magnitude of improvement.
I do think that there may be a problem when someone associated their identity with their current appearance, and imagines that out of a new appearance, another identity will emerge. At the same time, I do understand that individuals may evaluate and interact with other differently based on their physical appearance.
As for me, I have a list of things I'd like to handle. I've assessed that they are handle-able by some procedure or another. What I cannot do is to acquire the specific attributes that another person has. I can only impose certain changes on my own body. I can widen my palate and contour my bone and suspend soft tissue in certain ways, subject to the parameters of my own body.
I don't agree with the evaluation that plastic surgery cannot make a significant difference. I think that people can find that changes occur to them as highly significant. And, as with anything, it's all in the eyes of the beholders. At the same time, I would recommend individuals not to conflate identity with aesthetic appearance.
