Advice Needed Please

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Hello,

My name is Mark and I'm a college student. Over the last 10 years

or so my lower jaw has been slowly increasing in pain due to my

appearance (I'll tell you what I mean in a second). Today the pain

is so severe that it starts to hurt during a simple conversation.

The worst is when I'm doing a hour long presentation at school,

thats when it really becomes painful.

From the research I have done over the last couple of years I pretty

much know what I have, and that is a receding lower jaw and a weak

chin, which also makes me look very unbalanced. When I am out in

public I force my my lower out to hide the receding lower jaw. By

forcing or pushing the lower jaw out it hurts, but at least I look

normal and more balanced. I've been doing this for the last 10 years

and I think I'm making things much worse. As a kid I hoped that by

forcing my lower jaw out I would cure it myself, but I guess I was

wrong.

I hope some of you can answer a couple of questions for me. I wore

braces during a child and my teeth at the moment are perfectly

straight. Would I still need to wear braces if I were to have

surgery to correct my jaw inbalance?

I was also hoping you can tell me what price range I might be

looking at. I currently dont have insurance because I'm in school,

but I already signed an offer sheet to start working at a financial

firm starting in January. My starting salary will be very high for a

college graduate, so I wouldn't mind at all to take a loan to cover

the cost of surgery and slowly pay it back when I begin to work in

January.

Thank you all for listening and I look forward to sharing my

progress with you all in the future

Best Regards,

Mark