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I barely went anywhere near the internet at any point before my surgery and that's the only way I went through it calmly. If you spend enough time on the internet you'll end up worried by anything so there was no way I was going to look up 'information' from unsubstantiated sources. Trust the surgeo...

er the voice in minority here says in his case no. I had double jaw chop with a turbinectomy for good measure and my nose didn't change at all. Which is good because I like it how it is.

I had a jaw shift post-op. It isn't the bone itself, but rather the ligaments, tendons, muscles and all that good stuff "settled" in an unfavorable position once everything calmed down and had some freedom to move. The result = a canted jaw and a slight open bite on one side. My orthodont...

nineeyes wrote: I had my upper and lower jaw surgery 6 weeks ago, I can open up just under 4 finger widths after my splint was taken off a few days ago.

You had your splint in for nearly 6 weeks?! Jeeeeez! I was climbing the wall after one day!
I'm five weeks post op and at one finger width. It sucks.

I think this is pretty normal. It took me several weeks before I could get a small soft toothbrush to my molars, and longer before I didn't brace myself before yawning. There's no rush especially if you're eating normal food.

I personally have not experienced this as I have yet to have surgery. But, I did speak to someone who had their surgery back in the 90s and apparently had a relapse of some sort. She ended up going to some holistic dentist who specialized in jaw muscles and she said he fixed her bite by only exerci...

Hi there, this is my first posting on the forum. I'm a 30 year old man in the UK and have had lingual braces for two years and a malocclusion for which I needed a bimaxillary osteotomy (on the NHS) at the beginning of March this year. Pretty much straight after the op, to cut a long story short, my ...