Thanks for making the comparison Dogmatix, sorry I didn't see someone commented on the thread, I don't get a notification or anything.
30% increase sounds pretty good.
I think the photos I supplied were on funny angles making it appear that the pog has gone up vertically when it hadn't.
Yes the right and left side of the mandible lining up was what I was refering to. I spoke to the surgeon he said that he corrected misalignment of the lower jaw and upper jaw and it can be seen in the after photo, so no shaving going on.
Cool good to hear you think the upper incisors tips are in the right position. I was sort of worried I didn't get the right amount of advancement, but I think a large part of that was because my lips and face were so swollen making it look like my chin was still recessed, which I've heard is quite common. The surgeon said it all went to plan though.
I think the additional genio would of been 2-3k more, he said it would be cheaper to do it with the bimax than separately, which makes sense.
Don't know if it's a typo, but I meant how much more advancement in mm for the genio, not the cost
I think you get best evaluation if you get your photos from your surgeon, they should be most consistent and easiest to evaluate.
When I say 30% wider, that was just something I guessed from looking at the picture. But however, the area and volume increase may be even bigger, depending on the shape of your airways. Airways are normally round shaped, and e.g if you consider it a circle, an increase of 30% in the radius, means that the area increase is squared, 1.3^2 = 1.69%. Best way to evaluate would be if you would get the raw cbct file from your surgeon, both pre and post op so it can be compared in iCatVision or other cbct software.
I'm sorry to hear you don't feel that your airways have improved enough for sleep quality. I'm no expert, but what I've heard from people is that they seem to get almost immediate relief after surgery, and that swelling doesn't affect it so much. But who am I to speak to you about this, you of course have better experience of this. How do you notice and know that you still have obstruction, snoring, bad sleep, or just that it was better with cpap than it's now? Thinking if it's maybe that the airways actually have opened and that it's something else disturbing your sleep? Is it mainly the upper nasal airways you feel still are narrow, or is it all around? As I said, the raw cbct file would be very interesting to look at for your case if you could get that.
How ever, you must have come a long way in the recovery now and things starting getting back to normal?
