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Hi, slightly old post but I wondered if the lisp eventually went away! Ive just had braces on 3 days ago and I sound awful. I have blue stuff on my back teeth which has built them up so i dont break the brackets when i chew, but this seems to have left me with an open bite (approx 5mm) at the front ...

I have an underbite, a small maxilla and a very narrow upper arch. While Im quite confident and happy around friends, Im very self conscious around people I dont know well and so appear very shy and quiet, which I know isnt my natural personality. I hate to smile as my lower face appears very strang...

I have class 3 malocclusion due to a cleft palate repair which made my maxilla unable to grow correctly. Im at the start of my journey, need Sarpe then bimax and a genioplasty. I have a very large chin, and I mean very large, especially as the distance between my nose and top lip in very small, whic...

Im having SARPE at some point in the next few months. My orthodontist wants me to have fixed appliances put in prior to surgery to create space between my upper central incisors so that the roots arent damaged. Ive read quite a bit about the process and havent read about this happening before, is th...

Ive always known there was something slightly wrong about my appearance, but no medical professionals seemed to notice, or didnt really comment. I went to visit a dentist to talk about having my teeth strainghtened, he referred me to a maxfax surgeon, who to my shock told me that i did actually have...

Im starting the long process of SARPE, Le Fort I, BSSO and genio some time in the next few months but for the last couple of months, before I knew I had to have the jaw work done, I have been looking into having rhinoplasty to reduce the width of my nose and the tip also reduced. I could have this s...

Hi. Im just about to start treatment for what I initially thought was a simple underbite, but is now much more. I visited my maxfax surgeon last week and he told me that I have hypoplasia of my maxillar, due to the cleft palate I was born with, rather than a problem with my lower jaw. Anyway, I now ...