Re: Anyone has or had gummy smile?

[Guest guest]

I had a severly gummy smile before having upper jaw surgery 3 months

ago. Luckily I only had to have my upper done. I had a 1 piece

Lefort, my surgeon took 5.5 mm of bone out of my jaw and lifted it up.

If you want, you can check my pics out in the photos section under

mjlewis23. I haven't taken any recent pictures, but I am very pleased

with the result. If you want to see the pre-op ones a little closer

up, email me and I can send you the full size versions.

I think the surgery did improve the way I look when I smile. I'm glad

my gum tissue is no longer red and inflamed anymore. I also like my

profile much more too. Aside from that, I don't think I look all that

different. I think the surgery was a subtle change, but definitely a

good one.

> I have a gummy smile and I'm (thinking) of having both upper and

lower

> jaw surgery. I would really like to find someone who had/has this

> problem and find out what exactly was done to their jaw, the reason

> they did the surgery, if they have before/after pictures and

specially

> if they think it improved the way they looked..... any information

> would be appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks!!

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I also had the gummy smile and a protruding upper jaw. The OS cut

some of the bone out of my jaw and pushed the jaw backward a little

bit during the surgery on this Wednesday. It looks really nice now

besides the swelling after the surgery. It worths doing it.

Ummm... I don't have pictures...Sorry.

Irene

> > I have a gummy smile and I'm (thinking) of having both upper and

> lower

> > jaw surgery. I would really like to find someone who had/has

this

> > problem and find out what exactly was done to their jaw, the

reason

> > they did the surgery, if they have before/after pictures and

> specially

> > if they think it improved the way they looked..... any

information

> > would be appreciated.

> >

> >

> >

> > Thanks!!

[Guest guest]

I had a gummy smile as well, plus an open bite. I had 4mm of jaw removed from

the front

and 6mm from the back. You can see in my pictures, my teeth in the front didn't

touch

and I showed a lot of gum tissue when I smile. My last pictures show my teeth

now closed,

and showing almost all teeth, no gums. I also had a leforte 1. It wasn't that

bad. I was back

to work in 2.5 weeks, and up and about in just a couple days.

See my pics here. If you look at the first and last group of pics, you can see

the difference. I still need some ortho work to finish things up.

http://www.therayfamily.org/jawsurgery/JawSurgery.html

> I have a gummy smile and I'm (thinking) of having both upper and lower

> jaw surgery. I would really like to find someone who had/has this

> problem and find out what exactly was done to their jaw, the reason

> they did the surgery, if they have before/after pictures and specially

> if they think it improved the way they looked..... any information

> would be appreciated.

>

>

>

> Thanks!!