Guest guest Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Mindy, your new smile looks great! I too had the big gummy smile and they raised my upper jaw. yours looks so much better than mine! I have symmetry issues that will hopefully be corrected, but i have to say how awesome your new smile looks. > > Hi everyone, > It's been 6 months since my upper and lower jaw surgery. I had > upper shortened widened and lower advanced. > I still have left joint pain and some minimal swelling. I have > braces on yet and have a TPA, it's a wire in the roof of my mouth > to widen my upper jaw even more. > My surgeon still wants me to have genio yet cuz my lips don't > meet yet. I don't know why he didn't do it with my other surgery > but oh well! So when the braces come off I'll have that done. I am > still not satisfied with my mouth yet. I like my smile a lot better > but my profile isn't there yet and I want my lips to meet! > Anyway, good luck to everyone who is having upcoming surgery! > Mindy > PS. I uploaded a recent photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Thanks! The more I look at other pictures (profile and at rest) I still want to get my chin done and hopefully that will perfect all that I want to achieve. Mindy > > > > Hi everyone, > > It's been 6 months since my upper and lower jaw surgery. I had > > upper shortened widened and lower advanced. > > I still have left joint pain and some minimal swelling. I have > > braces on yet and have a TPA, it's a wire in the roof of my mouth > > to widen my upper jaw even more. > > My surgeon still wants me to have genio yet cuz my lips don't > > meet yet. I don't know why he didn't do it with my other surgery > > but oh well! So when the braces come off I'll have that done. I am > > still not satisfied with my mouth yet. I like my smile a lot > better > > but my profile isn't there yet and I want my lips to meet! > > Anyway, good luck to everyone who is having upcoming surgery! > > Mindy > > PS. I uploaded a recent photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Hi Mindy, checked out your new photo and think you look great! What a difference. Cathy In orthognathicsurgerysupport , " mwirtz_79 " <mwirtz_79@y...> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > It's been 6 months since my upper and lower jaw surgery. I had > upper shortened widened and lower advanced. > I still have left joint pain and some minimal swelling. I have > braces on yet and have a TPA, it's a wire in the roof of my mouth > to widen my upper jaw even more. > My surgeon still wants me to have genio yet cuz my lips don't > meet yet. I don't know why he didn't do it with my other surgery > but oh well! So when the braces come off I'll have that done. I am > still not satisfied with my mouth yet. I like my smile a lot better > but my profile isn't there yet and I want my lips to meet! > Anyway, good luck to everyone who is having upcoming surgery! > Mindy > PS. I uploaded a recent photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 You look great, Mindy! I also had the LeFort to shorten my upper jaw (2 months ago exactly), and had the genio at the same time to help bring my lips together. My lips still don't quite meet, even with the genio, but I will say it's such an incredible improvement over how it used to be I don't think I mind so much! (My lip " incompetency " -- lovely word! -- was around 11mm to start with, and is now maybe 3mm.) Hope the genio goes well if you do have it, but even if you don't, I think you look terrific. Sara > > Hi everyone, > It's been 6 months since my upper and lower jaw surgery. I had > upper shortened widened and lower advanced. > I still have left joint pain and some minimal swelling. I have > braces on yet and have a TPA, it's a wire in the roof of my mouth > to widen my upper jaw even more. > My surgeon still wants me to have genio yet cuz my lips don't > meet yet. I don't know why he didn't do it with my other surgery > but oh well! So when the braces come off I'll have that done. I am > still not satisfied with my mouth yet. I like my smile a lot better > but my profile isn't there yet and I want my lips to meet! > Anyway, good luck to everyone who is having upcoming surgery! > Mindy > PS. I uploaded a recent photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Thanks everyone! Well that's nice to know someone else has the same lip incompetency as I do. My surgeon said I have such a concave upper lip. I'd probably have to have plastic surgery or collegen injections to fix that, no thanks! Actually, it's kind of nice to have the jaw surgeries done first and then the genio, then at least you know if you really need it all! Mindy > > > > Hi everyone, > > It's been 6 months since my upper and lower jaw surgery. I had > > upper shortened widened and lower advanced. > > I still have left joint pain and some minimal swelling. I have > > braces on yet and have a TPA, it's a wire in the roof of my mouth > > to widen my upper jaw even more. > > My surgeon still wants me to have genio yet cuz my lips don't > > meet yet. I don't know why he didn't do it with my other surgery > > but oh well! So when the braces come off I'll have that done. I am > > still not satisfied with my mouth yet. I like my smile a lot better > > but my profile isn't there yet and I want my lips to meet! > > Anyway, good luck to everyone who is having upcoming surgery! > > Mindy > > PS. I uploaded a recent photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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