Metal Mouth Message Board

sorry... i just saw the replies!!! i had surgery in 1998, when i was 17. my lower jaw was "moved forward" and i had upper surgery, which i'm now learning is called "leforte I" (?)... my lower jaw has regressed back to worse than it was before over the past 12 years. and i have ch...

did you find that it helped at all? (i meant to include this in my original post...)

has anyone has any experience with this? I had both my lower and upper jaw operated on in 1999. I had an overbite and "gummy smile"... my overbite was corrected, however, it has relapsed back to worse than it was before. i've been told that i need braces and possible surgery again!!! howev...

wow! 3 times!!! i am so sorry... i vaguely remember how bad it was 11 years ago... honestly though, if it comes down to it, i guess i won't have a choice but to do it again and hope that it works the second time. just thinking about having to go through all of that again though... ugh! and not to me...

let me first introduce myself... i'm amelia, age 28... and i have a long story... sorry in advance for my rambling... my treatment began when i was 13... i had all 4 wisdom teeth cut out to make room for my teeth as part of my orthodontic treatment. at 14 i got braces and was told by my orthodontist...