- Inability to open their mouth fully (i.e. poor range of motion). Very common.
- Crunchy joints (very common)
- Losing teeth if roots are hit during surgery (not common but happens)
- Bad bite after surgery (fairly common). This can be an open bite, crossbite, etc. Edge to edge seems to be the most common post-op bite problem.
- Entire death of upper jaw - this can happen if doing a 3 piece (happened once).
- Actual death - we only saw this once, and it was on the other jaw forum, but he died due to an artery being hit during surgery.
These last two are rare, so don't freak out.
The list isn't comprehensive. I'd have to go through emails and look. But that's my answer off the top of my head.
Then there are the mental issues. I've seen many dozens of people who can't cope with the new face, feel their lost their ethnicity, etc. Sometimes there's truth to their concerns, sometimes there isn't.
Thanks a lot!
I think for the mental/expectation part I won't suffer from even if I dont get a perfect result, as you see from my picture my main problem is really the asymmetry, I dont have to many wishes to have a perfectly masculine jaw like a filmstar so even if lets say i get my jaw just the half closer to where it should be i would be so happy!
Okay wow yeah the death one hit me even if as said it happened only once. Was it a double jaw surgery/ bimax? And did it maybe happen in a medically speaking not very advanced country where they don't do xrays or do not have very good equipement as well as an anestheist working with the surgeon and things like that?
I have the appointment tomorrow afternoon (in 16 hours from now on) I don't want to bother you at all but if you'd like to and have a bit of time to go through some of your mails to tell me maybe other very bad damages that would be really great so I could ask the doctor about the chances of those and how he operates to prevent them from happening!
