Anyone skip recommended surgery?

[Chuckaluck]

I'm 39, I got braces two weeks ago and I still have options. The ortho is confident he can straighten my teeth but does not think it will fix my bite. Instead he recommends I have surgery at the 12 month mark. I met with the oral surgeon and all has been approved by my insurance. I spoke with my ortho when I had the braces put on about leaving my options open and he agreed. So I can have straight teeth with an over bite or going ahead with the surgery and get straight teeth with a proper bite. The surgery scares me and would be a double jaw surgery with a significant recovery period.

My question is has anyone skipped the surgery and still liked the results? Does anyone have thoughts on this they would like to share?

[djspeece]

You may want to reach out to sirwired, a very knowledgeable and articulate member of this forum who underwent surgery and braces. I think he can provide some valuable insights to support your decision one way or the other. Best of luck to you!

[Heidirs]

I have an underbite and will not be getting surgery to correct it. It just doesn't seem worth it to me. But everyone is different.

[BrunetteMoment]

I have an over bite and an over jet; my ortho suggested lower jaw surgery for a "perfect" bite. But he also said that if I choose not to do surgery that he could still fix it as much as possible and camouflage what can't be fixed without surgery. In the end I opted not to go through with surgery and will still get the straight teeth and bite that I wanted.
Every case is different though, best of luck!

[lia2017]

I'm curious too about results without surgery.

What kind of problems are you fixing with the braces? Straighening?

[liannes]

i went to two dentist. One which rejected me, and asked me to go to the hospital to get a jaw surgery done, as my bottom jaw is pretty small.
However, I do not want as it is costly, and any forms of operation has certain amount of risk. I felt quite sad, as i had to wait for 2 months to get his "verdict"

I chanced upon my current dentist's webpage, and went for a free consultation. Which he said it will try to do his best, but there might be a deviation of 5mm, from the perfect face. Which, i thought it is alright. He even mentioned what my previous dentist did not informed me, which are the implications of surgery.

I guess i will be more than happy with my teeth being straight, with the conventional way, than having to go thru so much for a perfect face.