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at 4 months how far along would you say you are to being back to normal? what are you eating now? Can you eat chips, steak, peanuts???? Woudl you do it again? did you have a choice? are you still optimistic? what do you do to stay postive? I am working constantly to stay postiive, patient and hopefu...

Hi Bomb, Actually, the tingling/numbness in the right half of my lower lip and chin is a larger area than I anticipated when I was told before surgery that numbness could be permanent. Sometimes my lip actually feels as if it's been burned. (Does yours ever feel like that?) I actually like when it g...

Hi Bomb,

No numbness in my tongue. I think it's understandable that one side could be different from the other because it would depend on what happened to the nerves on each side as the surgery was being done. And I think it can take up to a year for the nerves to heal.

Hi Bomb, I'm 59 and had upper and lower jaw surgery on April 3 of this year. Also had genioglossus advancement which is cutting a piece of your chin bone and moving it (with tongue attached) forward. Recovery has been as well as can be expected with no pain. I spent 3 nights in the hospital and a mo...

My Dr's have been coordinating the insurance - however not all insurance covers this sort of thing. I'm paying for the braces out-of-pocket, but the SARPE & lower jaw surgery will be covered - under medical rather than dental. I expect facial features to change somewhat; mostly I'll be getting a...

Hi all, I've been needing surgery since i was 16 -- 40 years! I have a class III underbite. My orthodontist at the time gave my parents the choice of doing the surgery or angling my lower teeth back under my upper teeth. They chose the latter for many reasons, cost certainly was one of them. The lo...

I am 59 and had double jaw surgery 3 months ago. I was told that I would have braces for 1.5 years before surgery and 1.5 years after surgery. It turned out to be more than 3 years before surgery and, hopefully, only 8-10 months afterwards. The surgery was 9 hours long (also included genioplasty, ne...

Hi Noam, would you happen to know where I could see those pics? I've been searching the internet and couldn't find anything like that?

Well, Helen, I am impressed! But what is a sliding genioplasty? By the way, I'm "from Jersey," too.

I'm contemplating orthognathic surgery, but I'm 57 years old. I haven't heard of anyone over, say, 47 having this surgery. Anyone out there who had the surgery in their fifties or older?