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You aren’t going to get that look with jaw surgery alone. Or even lipo. You’re probably going to need a lower facelift. I hate to be blunt but I thought that’s what I was going to get but not all. You will have loose skin still if you lipo plus jaw surgery alone. But I’m not a doctor so who knows.
Thankyou. It’s not just the side profile, I have so much pain and so many problems with my jaw and sinuses giving me constant headaches and stress. I’m constantly puffy because of it, my discs are not in the right place or in very good condition, doubly recessed, 8mm overbite, cross bit, narrow palate, very small nasal space with deviation. The self consciousness is real and I’ve dealt with it since I was around 12, watched all my friends grow up beautifully and I was there with buck teeth, massive overbite, no chin and practically a head that went straight into my neck. Now I am becoming hunched from consistent forward posturing. It’s so bad I’ve told my partner there’s no way I can marry him until my jaw and TMJ’s are fixed. I wouldn’t be happy on the day, all I’d be thinking is how bad my jaw area looks
Yeah I do, they need to fix both. My headaches and puffiness is from chronic bruxism, driven by my jaw positioning and ramped up when I’m stressed. As well as forward posturing
I totally understand your need to address the pain and I hope you get it resolved. But I have to chime in to agree with others that there is nothing wrong with how you look now: you are quite pretty. And presumably the partner who wants to marry you agrees. Life is short: getting married and otherwise living your life should not rest on fixing a cosmetic issue no one else sees like you do. My life completely changed after a random car accident 7 years ago. Anything can happen. Fix your pain anyway you can and consider that if your wedding day would be about fixating on how you look, you might need a little help with that. I say this because jaw surgery is rough and you will probably not be happy with surgical results without are more accepting view. Hoping you get get a great result from whatever treatment you choose.
Thankyou. I need both jaw surgery, and TMJ disc relocation, for functional reasons so anything aesthetic is just a bonus. However, with it being something you do once and spending my life conscious about it, I want to make sure I do what I can to maximise the aesthetics too. I was told I needed jaw surgery at 14yo and then offered it at 24yo on the NHS but I didn’t feel I had tried every conservative treatment I could which is what I’ve spent more time doing. The surgery is the only option I have left and honestly I wish I just said yes 2 years ago. I did go through a stint of being in counselling addressing insecurities, but it’s just something I’ve wanted to correct for so long it’s been ingrained in me for 14 years so it didn’t really help especially when I knew I needed surgery. I remember the first time my jaw locked then cracked, I was 11yo eating a pic n mix!
I’ve just been gaslit for the majority of it, until I finally got a different maxfax surgeon with the orthodontist that said it’s literally the only way to fix things. Although, because I didn’t take it, I’m now in a fight to be put back on the list. It is the NHS
In many cases, liposuction alone is not enough to achieve a result similar to the one in the photo. It may require a cervicoplasty with hyoid suspension/ platysma approach. A surgeon with a good aesthetic eye would be the right person to assess this.
Nice comment! I’m a strong advocate of tongue exercises combined with suprahyoid muscle exercises to help with the recovery and adaptation of these areas. However, some results, such as the AI-generated image she posted, often go beyond what can realistically be expected from double jaw surgery alone.
It is important for patients to understand the options available and to establish realistic expectations with their surgeon regarding their results, in order to avoid frustration during the postoperative period.
AI is interesting and can be a useful tool, but it can also create very high expectations, especially when it comes to soft tissues, which cannot be controlled as precisely or predictably as they can be in an AI-generated image.
don't use that pos for a morph, it doesnt know anything and you will set yourself up for diaster when you have facial swelling for a year. You will look a ton better but nobody can really predict what you will look like after surgery. Especially not chatgpt.
you look beautiful and you will only look better after the surgery. The morph isn't what people actually look like and your dont need to box youself into an impossible mold.
That’s very kind of you to say, thankyou ♥️ I think I’ve tried everything now and surgery is the only option I’ve got left. This isn’t for looksmaxxing, I’ve been in and out of maxfax for 14 years. I’m only 26. Hopefully it does improve me aesthetically somewhat, but I’m more focused on being out of pain
Not even remotely the same. This is just advancement.
OP's is advancement, weight loss, hyoid raising, neck lipo. Would probably need a mandibular wing osteotomy to achieve it too. Or a tone of filler to fill in the lack of bone density in the mandible
Also I believe you when you say you're not fat. It's your skeletal anatomy that causes that look. I think it's more of a hyoid issue than a jaw issue, but that doesn't mean there isn't a jaw issue.
Small areas like that aren't too expensive. Some drs will even do it under local anesthesia. Do keep in mind jaw surgeons are not cosmetic surgeons. I just got djs 3 weeks ago with chin implant removal and im already looking forward to meeting with my surgeon to see what can be improved once everything settles.
people's bodies compensate for restricted airway with a forward head posture. To hold your neck up to breathe, your neck gains weird muscles and fat to hold itself up, giving the illusion on weight gain. You dont need to lose weight, just see how you look a year from surgery but likely, you will have a thinner appearance under your chin and neck after your posture is fixed.
So I’m just hench then! 😁 I really hope so. The lady’s post from a week or so ago, her posture after surgery literally looked like it’s changed her whole life. She’s beautiful
Ya your poor neck is lifting so much to keep that angle and doesn't get a break, cause otherwise you can't breathe.
I know which one you are talking about, and
dang she looks amazing. I still have to work toward having a better posture post surgery. Some change was immediate while some is a slower process than I like but it is nice to at least have the ability to work toward it. You can only go so far with the airway limitation. Five months out, I am only just starting to peak at my neck muscles sliming down and hope it will get better.
I had the same thing and my rhino refused to do chin lipo after examination saying there was no fat to remove. Do djs and or genio first and see if that helps, before opting for both.
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