I'm exactly at 4 weeks post-op today, and I can tell you with say,
95% certainty that I'm glad I had it done. Braces alone would not have corrected my overbite, but now with my lower jaw advanced just a touch, it's only a matter of the ortho fine-tuning my teeth, and come summer (maybe sooner if I'm lucky), the braces will come off, my bite will be normal, and the idea of dentures in my future no longer a threat.
I do still have some numbness and a little discomfort, but it's nothing I can't handle and it gets better every day.
So, yeah... most definitely worth it!
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Braced March 2005 (lower); November 2005 (upper); all ceramic. Goal = correcting overbite.
Lower jaw surgery was successfully performed December 18, 2006.