I had braces for 2/3 years and during that time I used blocks and elastic to correct my bite ! Is it through you cannot have jaw surgery if your bite is correct ? And if so would a sliding genioplasty be sufficient to correct my severely receded chin ? Thanks
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A rotational genioplasty is just one of the many ways a bony genioplasty can be done to produce an improved chin shape. It is usually done to correct chin/jaw asymmetry by making the chin longer on one side or a 'rotational' or opening wedge genioplasty. It is not really rare at all.
Your (half face covering) frontal view photograph gives limited information., so the answer may be insufficient to fulfill your question. Usually, the reason for asymmetry is very complicated and there are combined asymmetry of bony skeleton and soft tissues. Due to limited information, we...
Hello and thank you for your question. The type of surgeries you had are known to cause significant swelling, which can take variable amount of time to resolve. You may see some asymmetry as the swelling does not completely resolve evenly. The best approach would be wait until all of the...
