Sliding Genioplasty - 20yr Old Female - Mississauga, ON

I was 15 when I stumbled across the existence of chin implants. I thought they were a ridiculous idea, until I looked in the mirror and realized that projection of the chin was exactly what I was missing- throwing my face off balance. I decided that I would wait until I was at least 17 before I would make any decisions. At 19 I finally had the money and determination to have surgery, but when I spoke to the plastic surgeon that had been recommended to me, he refused to give me a chin implant and told me to look into other more permanent options because of my age. Then I found Dr. Goldberg, a craniofacial and plastic surgeon who performed sliding genioplasty. I had my consultation with him on June 26 and a couple days later I had my surgery booked for July 11th. Getting my paperwork, blood tests
and appointments done felt very rushed, but I had chosen to go with this very early date so that I would be healed enough to go on vacation later in the summer. Today I am 1 day pre-op, and hope to share my
experience with any of you who are considering, or have already had this procedure. Right now I'm very nervous, but also very excited.

I barely slept last night, and was very stressed. I sat in a little room for about 2 hours and doctors and nurses occasionally stopped in to ask questions and answer any of my questions. When it was finally time, they injected something into my IV and suddenly I was waking up and being moved to the recovery room. My pain was maybe a 4 or 5 out of 10 and they gave me some pain meds. Right now my pain is about a 3 and I have to hold a tissue to my face to prevent blood from dropping out (I can't close my mouth)

After going through a box of tissues I decided to just sit at the toilet and let the blood drip from my incision- glamorous, I know. Also, I figured out that all my pain is coming from my tongue, it feels like it's been stretched out