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update: It's been just over 3 months since my bsso. Swelling has gone down significantly. One day I just looked in the mirror and recognized myself again. I am sure that has helped a lot. Also I have been doing some muscle retraining exercises several times a day. I followed some of these: https://w...

Let’s see if I can share these pics. This is right before surgery https://s8.postimg.cc/s7xdx83m9/4_D9_EB3_FF-5914-4_BD3-86_E2-_B87_E365_CB7_F3.jpg 2 months post op, relaxed https://s8.postimg.cc/er0fedgg1/0_F0_DB138-_AB7_C-4_EFC-_BDDB-_D62_A1_DD67_A02.jpg And lips closed https://s8.postimg.cc/er0fe...

Thank you for the responses. Sarah, my jaw was advanced 6mm. That’s a good point you made. I saw my doctor again yesterday and he still isn’t doesn’t want to talk about it until I’m healed. I do have braces but I had them before the bsso and lip incompetence wasn’t a problem then. Thanks again, I’ll...

Hello, I joined this forum about 10 years ago. At the time, I was considering sliding genioplasty to correct mentalis strain due to lip incompetance. I found this forum while doing research on the procedure. I went through with the sliding genioplasty. The surgeoun that did it did not recommend jaw ...

I had given up on ever regaining all feeling in my chin but it did come back. It took about 7 years.