Re: Midline assymetry: is it just an illusion?

[Guest guest]

No matter what your doc thinks of you, you have the right to question

anything and everything about your surgery and the results. I would

talk to him again.

On a lighter side, maybe your nose is not straight--just kidding.

But do you know what I mean, before the surgery you were looking at

you teeth and jaws, now they are maybe lined up right but look off

compared to your nose. I had to deal with that myself.

Keep us posted on what the doc says.

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> I'm 3 weeks post op from upper LeFort I, and lower push backward,

and

> before surgery, I had a midline assymetry (in other words, the

space

> between my upper 2 front teeth didn't line up with the space

between

> my lower front 2 teeth).

>

> Now however, I could swear I have a different problem, and I just

want

> to know if anyone else noticed this as they healed. Now the spaces

> between the upper 2 and lower 2 front teeth lines up perfectly, but

I

> fell like they don't line up with my face's midline. In other

words,

> if I were to use a pen to draw a line directly downward from the

> center of my nose, it wouldn't line up with where the spaces

between

> my front upper and lower teeth align.

>

> My doc thinks I'm the most neurotic patient ever, always concerned

> with every little thing, and he assures me that everything is

> progressing as it should -- but I still don't know about this! Did

> anyone else notice something similar as they healed? Is it maybe

just

> exacerbated by my swelling, and will get better as the swelling

> subsides??