I thought the same as you in my 20s and decided to ignore my bite issues and not do the surgery. Well things only got worse and not in my 30s my dentist finally explained to me that the incorrect bite was ruining my teeth and gums and 10 years from now there was a good chance I'd start losing teeth. That was finally the kick in the butt I needed to pursue surgery. Now in hindsight I realize it would've been so much easier to do it in my 20s. Now I've got 3 young kids and it's a lot harder to deal with all of this while trying to take care of children and plan ortho/surgeon/periodontist appts around their schedules. On the one hand, my SARPE surgery was botched, I had to start over with a new surgeon and orth to fix the damage, so some days I wish I'd never gone down this path. But I feel like I've got the best doctors now, and hopefully it'll all be worth it after my double jaw surgery next year. And I figure, if I'm going to have a beautiful smile, might as well get there ASAP so I can enjoy it!
Honestly, you really want to spend your life with a woman who would give a crap that you've got braces??? I've had a ridiculous gap tooth smile for 4+ months now and I don't even think about it most of the time, and really nobody else seems to even think twice about it.
Vanessa
Nervous, embarrassed, confused
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