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1 year and 3 months post op
So it's been 1 year and 3 months since I had double jaw surgery. My braces came off in May 2016 and I had a permanent retainer fitted behind my bottom teeth and had to wear a hawley retainer on my top teeth every night for 12 hours. I missed 2 appointments after having my braces taken off so I didn't get my first review and I stopped wearing my retainer for 7 months and when I decided I wanted to wear it again, it no longer fit me. (It's my own fault) but I just got a new one fitted today. I'm kinda disappointed that I've only just been given an appointment to see my actual surgeon. You are supposed to see them 6 months post op and I'm seeing mine 15 months post op. I wish I could be happy with my face/teeth but the truth is I'm just not. I keep going through phases of being happy with the results and then I go back to hating them. Like I stated in my previous post my bite is a hell of a lot better than before surgery, but it's STILL not how it should be so I can't help but feel unsatisfied with it. When I bite down it feels exactly the same as it felt before surgery and it upsets me quite a lot. I hate my teeth, but that has nothing to do with the surgeon obviously. I've always had small teeth and they're shaped weirdly and they just look so odd when I bite down, especially with them not even meeting correctly! I never smile because I don't like the way I look when I do it. I don't even smile with a closed mouth cause I still feel I look really weird. I'll apologise for the pictures now but if I'm going to talk about it I may as well have pictures to go with it!
My new bite
Change of opinion.
Yesterday I wrote a post saying that I'm not the happiest with my results. I forgot that I had posted a before picture of my bite onto here, I was very insecure about it so couldn't remember if I had and I didn't check yesterday. Turns out I did and WOW I forgot that it was ever that bad! I can't fault the surgery now, it still might not be perfect but perfection isn't everything and at least my jaw has been massively improved and can function better than it could last year. I have more reasons to be happy than reasons to be sad. I'm updating this because I now feel a lot more positive about it and want to share that feeling. Always look at the positives rather than the negatives, no matter the situation in life and you'll be much happier! I will upload some photos of my new bite later on and you can see how much it's improved.