You get to play amateur OMFS! Spot the problem...

[sirwired]

See if you can spot the anatomical issue in the P-A cephalogram below:



Let just say that when I saw this on the computer screen, the source of all my problems was rather clear.

[Marisama]

Your left side looks larger, no?

[streo]

Your maxilla is too small, and you have an asymmetry in your lower jaw.

[Clare85]

Your midline is way off, and you appear to have an open bite. Is that correct?

[sirwired]

You all have nailed it... I have significant lower jaw asymmetry, and a too-narrow upper palate. (And this is after palatal expander treatment as a child! You can only imagine what it looked like before!) But yes, this is tossing my lower midline approximately an entire tooth off.

I do not have an open bite... I don't know what's up with that crescent-shaped shadow across my anterior bite line; but if you look carefully, you can see that the teeth in front do indeed touch.