Orthognathic surgery for cosmetic reasons?

[Guest guest]

Has anyone had upper/lower/genio only for cosmetic reasons? Somehow

I have a good bite but a screwed up profile. I really want to look

normal from the side. I know genio is mainly cosmetic, but has

anyone hated their profile as much as I hate mine and been able to

fix it with upper/lower jaw surgery??

Thanks.

[Guest guest]

I did only genio, but that was not the original plan. I had bad

malocclusion with overbite and crossbite. So I was going to do lower

initially for functional reasons. But the ortho messed up, and my

surgeon couldnt move my jaw at a place he wanted. So he only offered

me genio option, for purely fixing the profile, and then he worked

with the ortho to get me a reasonable bite only with appliances.

Basically if you have a good bite, I would receommend (I am not a

doctor, just my suggestion) only genio to fix your profile. Or course

no insurance will cover, so you have to come up withe the expenses.

No hospital is needed and is outpatinet. It costs 3000-6000 usually

depending on the part of the country you are.

I read in various medical journals that actually there is a new

thinking of insurances to start covering genio in cases where they

could save them a lower surgery. Think about it, from insurance point

of view they can pay 1/5 the price of lower and hosptial fees. So in

cases where the insurance agrees that lower is needed but if ortho

could be done as a reasonable alternaitve and genio added for

structural issues, then some insurances might take it.

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> Has anyone had upper/lower/genio only for cosmetic reasons?

Somehow

> I have a good bite but a screwed up profile. I really want to look

> normal from the side. I know genio is mainly cosmetic, but has

> anyone hated their profile as much as I hate mine and been able to

> fix it with upper/lower jaw surgery??

>

> Thanks.

[Guest guest]

I think you are on my wavelength. I absolutely abhored my profile

ever since we did one of those dreadful (to me it was) sihouette

drawing exercises in the third grade. I absolutely looked horrible

and always avoided allowing people to look at me from the side.

My bite actually was bad too, so I had pallate expansion surgery,

lower jaw moved forward and a genioplasty, but nonetheless my

main concern was improving my looks. Unfortunately that

surgery, though it fixed the bite and made some improvement, I

was still very short on the profile... I was soooooo recessive to

start with. Anyway, that problem got fixed right two months ago

with a very large, box cut genioplasty that advanced me another

15mm. If you want to know more and perhaps share your woes

of having a dreadful profile, please email me.

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> Has anyone had upper/lower/genio only for cosmetic reasons?

Somehow

> I have a good bite but a screwed up profile. I really want to look

> normal from the side. I know genio is mainly cosmetic, but

has

> anyone hated their profile as much as I hate mine and been

able to

> fix it with upper/lower jaw surgery??

>

> Thanks.