I can look good from the right side/the right angle. Even when I smile my teeth can look lined up from that side. But straight-on or from the left, my face is insanely wonky. My forehead goes left then my nose goes right then my chin and teeth go left. Why is my face so [RS bleep] up? I'm getting rhinoplasty for my deviated septum so straightening my nose is a start and might help but what about the rest of my face? I had braces for so long but it didn't fix the fact my teeth go sideways.
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There are a variety of procedures that will help with facial proportion improvement. The two most important would be rhinoplasty and frontal hairline lowering. A sliding genioplasty (you don't need double jaw surgery) and submental liposuction would also be if benefit. Computer imaging is needed...
You have a horizontally protrusive chin and a large soft tissue chin pad. This is best treated by a submental approach where the bony protrusion can be reduced and the soft tissue chin pad adjusted to the smaller size of the chin bone.
At rest your chin is at the upper range of normal for vertical height. But when you smile the soft tissues get pulled back along the sides and the soft tissue chin pad is magnified in size and gets more pointy. The only potential solution is a vertical chin reduction by internal wedge removal o...
