How long until your new face settles into its after appearance??

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So I'm nearly 12-weeks post op from upper LeFort I and very happy with

my new bite, but just dying for this swelling to

finally subside so I can decide whether I'm happy with my new

appearance (because so far, I'm not...I just don't look all that

different than before). Let me ask this: for those of you who are

happy with your post-op change in appearance, just how long was it

until your face settled into what you would call its " final " post-op

form? My cousin who had this surgery told me that it was a full 6-

months until she really saw the " new her " . But what confuses me is

that I look at the before/after pics in the Photos section and it

seems that nearly everyone who has a dramatic positive change in

appearance looks strikingly better just two or three weeks post-op.

But most people tell me that they can't see any difference in my face

and its been nearly 3 months.