Jaw Surgery Testimonials
There are many accounts of people whose lives have gotten worse after a Jaw Surgery. Here are 100+ Testimonials…
"I hate to finally admit this but I regret my DJS more than anything despite months researching, numerous consults, long conversations about techniques and long term results, and the fact my surgeon performed over 150 of these surgeries a year."
"This surgery is the biggest regret of my life. Food on my chin and lip is common place due to the numbness. Kissing is awkward. Eating is awkward. Chewing is uncomfortable/painful. My teeth are loose from the braces and which were taken off over six months ago. My mouth has never felt the same since the surgery. The nerves are very messed up and after all this time I don't figure it will get much better."
"A family member of mine is going through suicidal thoughts and episodes of depression and ugly thoughts after jaw surgery."
"Yeah, this happened to me. The pain is just absolutely insane and it weighs on your brain when the pain is that high. Your brain is constantly telling you to end it. Killing myself was the only thing I could think about."
Numbness in my chin, gums and lower lip. Didnât fix my sleep apnea. Added jaw crunching where I didnât have it before. Makes kissing not great. Pretty much anything touching the lower part of my face is uncomfortable. Numbness is all the time. And the nerve pain too when I brush my teeth. Ouch!
"I'm so extremely depressed. I hate what's been done to me. Don't get jaw surgery unless you're having very bad functional problems or are severely deformed. The risks are not worth it."
"It has been 10 months since my surgery, yet I still have a lot of pain when I open my mouth, and it feels like my jaw is breaking with crackling noises. In the end I could not see the result I wanted, only the pain. I waited quite a long time for this surgery to be done, with lots of expectations and hope. However, this whole process just degraded my mental health and sucked the life out of me. I feel like I've been deceived."
"Hate my stupid face 16 months post-op. My nose is crooked. My profile is awful. My eyes are hollower. When I smile all of it comes together into an awful grimace where I donât look happy, I just look pained. I donât want to feel like this anymore. I feel like I have lost myself and donât know how to get back to feeling normal."
"I would give anything to take back what I did for aesthetics."
"I had double jaw surgery as a teenager 30 years ago and I haven't been able to look at myself since. I hideout when it's time for pictures. I am so psychologically messed up because of what was done to me. I'm disfigured and feel like a freak. I have no smile only a reverse smile (the muscles pull the corners of my mouth downwards). I have no lips when before the surgery I had beautiful full lips (my best feature). My daughter is getting married in a few months and I'm terrified of having to look at pictures of myself. Instead of helping me, the surgeons I've consulted with over the years tell me to get counseling to accept the new me."
"I had upper jaw orthognathic surgery in 2006. I end up looking awkward, and consequently avoiding people, including friends and potential love interests. It really makes me feel very isolated. Also, numbness has persisted since then. I think we, "orthognathic patients" should unite more, exchange experiences and try to help each other. Since I guess there are hundreds of us scattered around the world with the same issues, doctors don't really have a solution. Most of us have, because of this surgery, a permanent condition, and maybe we should form some kind of association as other health situations have."
"I ended up with chronic pain after double jaw surgery. I wake up every day with my entire face and head hurting. I eat ibuprofen like candy and God am I sick of it."
"I'm over 1 yr and 6 months post op and also isolated myself from friends and family, told them to think of me as gone forever. I've been hiding behind a mask ever since. I have many functional and aesthetic issues. It's the biggest regret of my life. Extremely depress ever since! My entire life is ruined by this stupid surgery!"
"Your face is your identity, your emotions, your thoughts. I want to warn other people."
"I'm 6 weeks post op and I have a non union in the same exact spot. Everything wiggles. So sad. They need to honestly find a new way to do this surgery because its causing people A LOT of health issues. Only a handful of people actually walk away from the surgery successful. Then those successful cases come back in 10 years with loose screws and infections. Definitely one of the worse surgeries in the world."
v"At 24 I was naive enough to believe that fixing my overbite would fix my life. I thought that by having a perfect smile I would automatically gain the confidence I had so desperately been lacking and that a lifetime of insecurity would just melt away and be replaced by a better version of my former self. I didn't understand the risks. It's been almost two years since my surgery and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what happened. I suffered catastrophic complications - the loss of eight front teeth, the loss of a large segment of my upper jaw, the loss of my hard palate, a deviated septum, nerve damage so bad that it sometimes consumes my entire existence. The physical complications have been a hell all their own but they don't even begin to compare to the emotional trauma."
"In 2016 I had my upper jaw reconstructed/realigned. (Later I had) Two root canals because at least two teethâs roots were hit during the 2016 surgery and my teeth are now dying. I was never warned I would deal with this almost the rest of my life. Many doctors/surgeons nearly hold my hand as they say âIâm sorry youâre going through this and will continue to.â My surgery is my biggest life regret."
I regret trusting my orthodontist's recommendation of what was in my opinion an unnecessary orthognathic surgery. Almost two years later and it has very negatively impacted my quality of life because daily tasks such as talk and eating have become very unpleasant. I am also very disappointed over the way I look and have been told by friends I looked much better before. Only do the surgery if it is truly medically necessary."
"I feel at a complete loss and don't even know where to begin."
At least when I had my underbite, a lot more of my face was very defined, but now I feel like my cheeks are puffy even 8 months after surgery, my whole face slants to the left, nose, chin, everything. Itâs made me hate looking at myself, when that was never the case before, even with a mass underbite.
13 weeks post op, and I miss my old face so so much. I missed how I used to look and the pain was just not worth it to go through.
"I'm starting to regret the surgery cause I think my jaws uneven and it's making me depressed
This surgery has a lot of complications that no one thinks are going to happen to them. In my case I had a non union. Itâs been nothing short of traumatizing. I havenât eaten normally in 10 months. My upper palette, teeth, and gums are almost all completely numb still. It sucks. Itâs all I can focus on. You never think itâs going to be you because the chances are âso slimâ but are they really??? Itâs not fun. It has ruined my life. Itâs affecting every area from dating to working. I want to give up."
"10 months later I regret having surgery. This paraesthesia is driving me up the wall. I look in the mirror a couple of times a day. But I feel this crap every waking moment. And now I'm compelled to have even more surgery to balance my face - the le fort advancement made my upper lip, my midface way too full, my chin weak. What a clusterf**k."
"I had double jaw surgery in September 2009. My bottom jaw was moved backwards 6mm and the top jaw was moved forwards 3mm. The result was fantastic. Fast forward 5 years and my bite has now almost completely relapsed to the pre op state (well not entirely). I am now in a situation where my top teeth clash directly on the bottom teeth. I am feeling upset, angry and down about how this has happened to me. I feel that I wore braces for 4 years, attended yearly maxillofacial clinics on an annual basis, all the effort and dedication for nothing. To be exactly in the same position as I was before all of this started."
"I kind of regret it. I didn't get the surgery for aesthetic reasons but prefer the structure of my face and jawline pre-op."
"Yes (I regret the jaw surgery), Iâm half deaf now. Audio engineer. Career is pretty much over."
"Right now, regretting big time. I had a good result but now how have permanent tmd. My surgeon has been unable to help and I have been suggested to get another jaw surgery to fix the tmd."
"Iâm 4 months post surgery (DJS) and am having a really hard time with how terrible I look now. The surgery was supposed to be for my sleep apnea but one of my biggest concerns was if my physical look will change for the worst. I have constant tightness in my lower mouth and am still very numb and feel very swollen. Itâs definitely an uncomfortable feeling. Iâm just a little devastated with the results and I donât know what to do anymore."
"Had a lot of post-op complications, including severe TGN, had to do emergency therapy to learn how to move my tongue/face (nerves all confused, I guess?) so I could swallow, excessive vomiting, auto-immune like response. Now I have two auto-immune disorders (triggered by surgery, not actually the fault of surgery), and an asymmetrical face due to permanent swelling on right side. Permanent numbness for half of my chin and lower lip which extends to side of face."
"Wish my dentist never mentioned jaw surgery, I hate my results."
"I had one jaw surgery it was a success but fucked me for life because my surgeon decided to remove my sinus wall all during the surgery and drive a stew near my molar (lost him), gave me a sinus infection (bad hygiene) and also destroyed my nose nerves so i suffocated for months so i cannot tell how much this surgery destroyed me."
"I had a surgery with LACOMS last year and I couldn't be less happy with the results. This last year has been a living nightmare. The original surgery was for airway expansion and aesthetics, and the surgery left me significantly recessed. My bite was perfect before and now, a year later, I'm still unable to chew my food. My jaws were misaligned after surgery and I was left with an open bite in the back. Now, a year later, I'm still having complications with my hardware and need to get surgery to have them removed. I'm now going to need nearly 2 years of braces and probably 3 or 4 different surgeries to fix everything that they messed up. There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish I had never heard of LACOMS or my surgeon."
"I'm 1 year post op and regret my surgery. There's actually heaps of people who do as well. "
"Your regret of getting jaw surgery sounds like me right now, while I did get a better side profile it's still not aesthetically pleasing imo. The numbness also has me losing my mind."
"I regret it. I was so excited for it. Risks didn't scare me until experiencing them. There are other risks no one talks about because how could they know. I had the best surgeon around. Everyone talked about him as being the go-to-guy. Weeks later, (the surgery had lots of problems), I had a lot of pain. It hurt around the plate and surgical site. 2nd surgery weeks later (but issues are not better). It feels like he destroyed me. The mental anguish from this is destroying me. My gf keeps crying over me. She regrets letting me do the surgery to begin with. I can't express enough how I feel. I want to tell people if you don't have serious problems like pain, breathing, eating, et. cetera, don't get it. This surgery can be life changing. But life changing can also be bad. I'm sorry if anyone disagrees with me but I think a lot of people can be fine without this surgery. "
"Iâve completely become a hermit. I stopped going to my surgeon after 6 months due to her complete disregard of my concerns. My job became overwhelming due to the surgery and other reasons so I resigned a couple of years ago. I donât have money to live, or insurance. I donât want to be here anymore. Thereâs no way to fix this. I donât know what to do. If my bf and my little niece didnât love me, I would end it."
"I'm a little over 1 year post-op. My chin and lower lip are still numb, I've lost full movement, when its cold my lip turns purple from lack of blood flow, my lower lip is always chapped and peeling, my jaw clicks now when I open it (never happened prior), eating is still uncomfortable. I guess my sleep apnea is better but let me tell youâno restful nights sleep is worth being uncomfortable 100% of the time you're awake. Its feels like a curse. To top it off, my face looks worse!"
"I regret mine!!!"
"I had TMJ problems, which it fixed. I had an overbite that braces were not going to fix. My lower jaw was pretty recessed. I had slight breathing issues because my upper jaw was very narrow because I was thumbsucker as a child. It did fix my bite and TMJ issues. This was not cosmetic, this was done at Kaiser, I just hate how much this surgery aged me and I hate my smile and face now. I feel like God is punishing me for being so vain pre-surgery."
"I had double jaw surgery 11 weeks ago and I just did not expect my face to look so different. I'm not sure how much swelling comes into place because I don't know how much swelling is actually left, but I honestly don't recognise myself anymore and I felt MUCH more confident before the surgery. My nose was way sharper before (which weirdly makes so much difference!)."
"I'm still not sure if my results might change but I came out of surgery aesthetically better, however, I also got neuropathic pain that never stops and might last forever or for a very long time."
"I regret it. I have severe lip incompetence now, worse than before I went for the surgery. I also have slightly flared teeth from braces and apparently an over expanded upper jaw (according to the second opinion I received , the ortho over expanded when my palatal expander was in).
Iâve been told by another surgeon that another jaw surgery would be required and would not achieve the desired outcome. It would help but not completely, and the risks increase on 2nd surgery. Iâm 3 years post op and still contemplate a 2nd surgery every day because I hate the amount of tooth show I have, and also because the muscles in my face are simply tired from forcing my lips together to talk, eat, and mask the issue when in public."
"Several months ago I had lower jaw surgery. The chin surgery went all wrong - crooked, there was a gap between the bone segments and it severely elongated my face. He also did not follow his own surgical plan and doubled the amount of chin advancement he had told me. I'm a young woman and ended up looking like a transsexual. I have to avoid all mirrors or I mentally breakdown. Sobbing, anxiety attacks, insomnia. nausea. This is what's causing more of my anxiety; that I'll be forever disfigured."
"I had my doubts this was the right treatment before but after being told it would give a nice result I went ahead. What a mistake, my face has been left very long, I have a deep indentation in my jaw line and it has made the existing asymmetry worse. I also now have issues with swallowing and my speech is affected. I have told my concerns to the surgeon who has said there is nothing wrong and perhaps I should see a psychologist."
I am almost 6 weeks post-op and will need an extensive septoplasty for a deviated septum that I didnât have before. It is so hard for me to not regret the surgery - I got it for sleep apnea and Iâm back on the cpap.
"Sagging, nerve damage, TMJ, tightness on chin and deep tissues where it was cut. No good aesthetic outcome either."
"I had a fracture on one side of my mandible during recovery and they literally did the WORST job repairing it. Now Iâm so scared because I want it fixed but that would be my 4th surgery. I heard itâs rude to compare stories but I really empathize with you and want you to know that youâre not alone."
"Itâs been a year after my jaw surgery and I regret doing it. My face isnât the same and my face looks like I had surgery. Trying to be patient but I have to come to terms my new face will always look weird"
"I lived isolated due to botched jobs"
I went through with the surgery even though I was apprehensive and now i regret it. My face just looks so weird to me now and I feel like I look off. I don't have my round face anymore and now my face is longer, I have less cheeks and my face looks gaunt. This was honestly an awful surgery and I never anticipated how horrible it was going to be. I don't want to be stuck with this face anymore and I've even been googling cosmetic suregry options for the last little while. I wish I could have a proper bite and my own face back. đ
"I don't really i'll ever be able to achieve pleasing , nice-to-look-at look... and it's emotinally devestating for me - i can not live like this. In ten years - my whole third part of face collapsed. I can't bare to look at my face, i dont have any will to leave house... my face had changed drasticlly. i hardly recognize myself - it's not me. it's mentally devestating for me to live like that . Devestated by it . Feel lost in where to turn. "
"I never thought this was possible. My surgeon was supposed to be one of the best."
"I'm so very sad, the outcome of my surgery isn't AT ALL as expected. I had double jaw surgery when I was younger to correct an underbite, and open bite and an asymmetry (it was quite a mess). When the swelling started to go down I saw that something must be wrong, the midline of my upper teeth did no longer line up with the midline of my upper lip or my face. This makes me very sad in so many ways and I don't know what to do."
"I was totally botched. I think I'm the worst case I've ever seen. On top of this, and more distressing, I have terrible nerve damage that causes extreme pain when I talk. I've been depressed for 3 years now. When I speak, the mentalis muscles and lip muscle on the right feel so unbelievably tight and stiff. I literally dread talking and its been very isolating."
"I regret it. Itâs been 6 years now and I still unable to satisfy with the new face. It turns out now my new face is kind of disharmonious and look so fat than before. I have been suffering body dysmorphia and depression these recent years. I always think that I should not have undergo this surgery."
"Me too, itâs been 11 years. I liked how I looked presurgery and wasnât prepared to not look like âmyselfâ anymore. I have had to deal with some dismorphia issues, and it took years for my face to settle if that makes sense. đđđ"
"Permanently lost all feeling from my nose down, including lips cheeks chin tongue etc. since my 2nd DJS 8 years ago. I also have nerve damage so it feels like ants are crawling throughout my face 24/7 and Iâm unable to scratch it."
"I am not happy with how I look and my bite asymmetry is much worse."
"20 months ago the local luminary performed statistically the safest surgery on me (Le Fort I) and absolutely WRECKED my infraorbital nerve. I have been living with horrendous paraesthesia ever since. My upper lip is a burning rubbery hell."
"I had double jaw surgery genioplasty 18 months ago I'm still having stiffness tightness in the chin frontal jaw area"
"I have center lower lip paralysis. Like the center won't pull down at all when I smile and creates a flat lower lip affect instead U. If I can't smile naturally anymore then no cosmetic surgery can compensate for that and I'll never be at peace."
"Ever since the surgery I felt like my smile has been completely off. The surgery was a success on the sleep apnea front but my jaw is clicking and hurts when I yawn or chew at all. My septum is so twisted it hurts when I sneeze. I still can't eat more than mush almost 4 months later. I feel at a complete loss and don't even know where to begin."
"I had double jaw surgery with genioplasty in August to fix a severe overbite/recessed chin. My profile is a lot better, and I have a proper bite for the first time in my life, but so many things went wrong. I have a large bone bump on the angle of the right side of my lower jaw. My nose became noticeably crooked to the left. The crooked nose causes my whole lower face to appear to pull to the right. My bottom lip is off by a couple millimetres to one side. I've also developed a cant on both the upper and lower jaw. It's noticeable when I smile (more gum shows on one side) and when my mouth is closed (the right side of my jaw/chin appears lower than the left). Am I severely, severely depressed because of body dysmorphia or is this to be expected when things go wrong after surgery?"
"Iâm a few weeks post-op DJS and I think the surgery went wrong. I still have an underbite on one side and now have an overbite on the other. My teeth donât make contact anywhere except for my underbite. Has anyone had a bite like this post-op? Iâm so upset and donât even know where to start at this point to get it fixed. My doctor brushed everything off and rushed me out of the office."
"I've had double jaw surgery under NHS. Now I look weird when I smile hard, so I just try to mask my smile. I don't know what to do. I'm not happy with my mouth at all. My bite is good but its all tilted. And I am afraid to say anything because the surgery was free under NHS, and I don't want to sound ungrateful!"
"I regret doing it. I remained with more problems than those I had before. I cannot chew, TMJ pain and headaches."
"My surgeon is a renowned professor in a good university with many publications on researching. When i met him i literally saw him for 5 minutes he hardly went through the procedure with me and mentioned that only lower jaw surgery is needed and necessary ... like an idiot i trusted him because of his reputation... After the surgery, aesthetics are getting worse as times goes by. Both jaws are back and due to having a maxillary hypoplasia i look much worse than i used too.... I'm just incredibly angry ... i don't know what to do.... I paid the price...."
"I underwent jaw surgery. Tbh, I kind of regretted doing the surgery. I am quite down nowadays. I looked so different, but unfortunately on a bad note. I always wear mask when I am outside. It's so bad. I looked much better before. My cheek and my smile just look unnatural now. I was happy with my old face.. no complain whatsoever. My parents kinda force me to do the surgery :'(. However now, everything looks so weird. I look so plump and assymetrical. I am on day ~49 from my surgery now btw. And I am stil wearing elastics front and one on each side. I am sorry for ranting but I need someone to talk to about this. I don't dare to talk to my doctor abt this of course. Nor to anybody else."
"I would like to know how people in general are coping with depressive feelings/regrets and disappointment after jaw surgeries. I just want to find a way to smile again at life and be positive again! I have always been a positive person in life but now I really don't know how to come out of this."
"I am a 27 year old, healthy female. I had my double jaw surgery after a year of braces. I went into cardiac arrest during surgery and a code blue was called. I Woke up in the ICU (REALLY RARE). I I have to go back to basically do what I did the first time around."
"i do hate my face. Well at least the jaws part of it. I am badly deformed - need 6-8mm vertical height extra on the maxilla, so yes I am extremely upset about my face. I don't even look human truthfully."
"same happened to me, had perfect lips and side profile then after djs it all went away. thin dead lips (40%) numb btw and a double chin from set back 𤣠DONT GET THIS SURGERY unless you absolutely need it. "
"I regret mine and hope functionally it doesnât get worse."
"I regret it because all my teeth on the bottom jaw, the one that was moved, are all dying. Let me tell you, getting root canals on all your bottom teeth is expensive and painful."
I had the surgery and everything went well and looked good for years. However, now it is (seven years later) and my jaw is well on its way to being as bad as it was before surgery. My speech is becoming a large struggle again, and many people often tell me they can't understand what I'm saying."
"I had double jaw surgery with setback and advancement of top jaw. The procedure went pretty smoothly and was (supposedly) done with one of the world's top surgeons. I believe the advancement was overdone. I am really upset at how much the surgeon brought it forward. It feels unnatural, exceedingly "strong" and the lower 1/3rd of my face is just strange in my opinion. These thoughts have had an unpleasant psychological effect on me."
"I had surgery over a year ago. My procedure was complicated (2 surgeries and 2.5 years of braces). I am now extremely unhappy with the results. I look awful! The psychological effect is even worse. I feel like it was all a total failure. I don't like to leave my house to meet people. I am avoiding visiting family and friends because I don't want them to see my face. Next weekend I was supposed to fly up and see my daughter and meet her partner for the first time, but I'm too ashamed to meet him and embarrass my daughter. I cry a lot about it. "
"I have lower jaw surgery almost 18 months ago and have been left with chronic paresthesia resulting in having to depend on high levels of Gabapentin and Carbamazepine. I also have chin muscle tightness and skin numbness and hyper-sensitivity. All in all not a great thing to be left with. Hard to live with, feelings of isolation and no way forward. Surgeon has little interest in me. Where do I go from here????"
"I had double jaw surgery to correct an underbite and crossbite four weeks ago and things aren't looking too great. I've brought up my concerns the last few visits, and so far the surgeon's been very dismissive."
"I had jaw advancement this past February. After the surgery i knew something was not right. My lower jaw felt it was in the wrong position and my upper jaw still felt back. For months i thought i was going crazy, feeling depressed and shut myself off from everyone, every person i spoke to including 2 surgeons said my jaws were the same length. I finally saw a tmj specialist. She confirmed i was right all along, the surgeon got the measurements wrong on my upper jaw. It is so frustrating, I am considering pursuing legal action."
"Sister got all teary with me on facetime at the loss of my old face. Her words - I quote - she misses my âsharkish smileâ. Iâm still struggling not to feel self-conscious and sad. Maybe I killed what was unique in my face. I would really like to stop thinking about my face at all."
"Prior to jaw surgery I felt attractive and liked my face from the frontal view and my big smile. I was embarrassed of my profile and when I smiled big and showed a "horse like" smile with a lot of gum and large open bite. I had double jaw surgery (le fort and BSSO) in august 2016. The results have been devastating to me. My bite is closed and even, but the soft tissue and facial proportions, in my opinion, are not good. My face looks even longer than before and more masculine. My philtrum is longer and my nose wider, and my whole face looks longer. My lips also seem thinner. I am very depressed and don't know what to do. "
"I believe there are thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of us out there."
"I had failed orthognathic surgery. My chin was on the left side of my face, could not eat or speak properly, and I choke because of it all the time. My throat is shifted to right side and I give the appearance of a bells palsy individual (beautiful look for a a professional classical singer) and I have a permanent lisp because there is no feeling in lip, chin, right side of tongue and no taste. Between the displaced throat, limited saliva and the inability to chew properly on the left side, I often choke. I have no smile, lips do not meet, teeth to right and lips to left. I speak to the right side of my face and the right side of cheek bone is lower than the left. I have undergone a correcting surgery, but the deficits above still exist."
"I'm so unhappy with what's happened, especially because this (impaction) is a NEW problem I never had before. I enjoyed smiling and now I don't - only closed mouth smiles for pictures. I have battled depression and stress from the beginning. I am happy about my profile improvement. It's a shame this other problem out of the blue has really erased much of this joy and any excitement post-op."
"The original reason for having surgery was to correct an open bite of the top front teeth and a slightly recessed lower jaw and chin that made it a bit of a conscious effort to keep my mouth closed at rest. My orthodontic treatment alone actually corrected my open bite though, so I was weary of surgery from the first consultation with my surgeon. truly liked the way I looked before the operation and I only agreed to do both the upper and lower jaw because I thought I would look brutish with only the lower jaw advanced. (During the surgery) I feel like I was changed (in ways) that I did not want or request. I feel completely blindsided and can't stand to catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror or photo since my surgery. And I just feel so sad because I really loved my face before the operation. I realize now how naive it was to go into such an important surgery so blindly."
"So it's been 10 months now and day by day I feel it's a FAILED surgery and I still have asymmetrical jaw and a class III bite on the right side. I'm so frustrated and devastated since I paid almost all of this out of pocket. Not to mention all the pains and discomfort I've been through. I had some followup appointments with the surgeon and I raised my concerns, but he became very impatient and started refusing to talk to me. He said, as I quote, he did an A+ surgery and there's nothing wrong."
"I expected just a minor change and for the better. Not a huge change for the worse."
"So I had the operation and it seemed to me as soon as I was conscious after it that my jaw hadn't been advanced enough. My jaw joint shouldn't be in constant state of tension just to keep my teeth near touching at rest. Btw I'm 10 months post op now and my surgeon, who I no longer talk to, thinks it is all in my head. My surgeon despite saying it is all in my head also has said that I signed a piece of paper that said I accepted the risks of surgery yes piece of s**t he is. Sometimes I feel like doing something crazy and getting even with the people who have failed in their treatment of me then left me hanging out to dry."
"Just over two years ago I had surgery (through the NHS) to correct my underbite. I had both upper and lower jaw surgery. I've been happy with my overall profile and the underbite has gone, but I really do not like my new smile at all. I had two years of braces before the big op and I was excited to have a smile that I could finally be proud of, but sadly this wasn't the case for me. I feel that my smile is now goofy. Initially I thought that the surgeon had given me an overbite, but I explained my concerns to him post-op and he completely re-assured me that the bite was perfect. He told me that that these things just take time to settle. Well, I waited and waited and I've been scratching my head ever since. I really have tried to accept my new smile but I really dislike it! It makes me look completely bizarre."
"I'm very sad about my experience with jaw surgery. I'm 19 years old and I went from having an underbite to an asymmetrycal overbite. My face has been ruined. I cry everyday, I can't even look at myself in the mirror. The surgeon told me that he's willing to fix my jaw with a double jaw surgery after the summer but I don't wanna see him anymore."
"I can't help but keep talking about the subject with people, like if someone's kid is getting braces or someone complains about modern medicine. I go on this sort of canned rant about my experience and sometimes start crying. I feel I need to warn them. I know this sounds dramatic, but it feels like I was traumatized and I'm stuck in a loop. It's like I HAVE to talk about it. My boyfriend, parents, everyone -- they all tell me to avoid the subject. I even went to a family reunion recently, where my own uncle didn't recognize me, and I felt I couldn't say anything about this whole ordeal because my dad said not to tell them. So I have this weird combination of guilt, anger, and loneliness, and when I tell people about the surgery I focus on the airway and slight bite issues. Not the issues that gutted me to my core."
"I regret my surgery! I have done a lower jaw surgery for a class two malocclusion overbite which resulted in numbness in my jaw and a discomfort feeling, skin redness in the jaw area and face, never had this before surgery, asymmetrical jaw line, increased my lisp/ saliva production and its harder for me to say some words, my mouth most of the time is slightly open, oral intimacy is painful. Bottom line, donât believe this surgery doesnât have side effects."
"it feels like i elected to have a major surgery that wasn't necessary. like i harmed myself in some way. it's hard to live with knowing that i trusted my doctors opinions instead of my own intuition"
"My opinion is that this surgery get reserved for only the most severe of cases. Cases where you are in so much pain, can't function, and have reached rock bottom and have nothing to lose by gambling on this surgery and it's associated risks."
"I'm so upset/unsatisfied with my jaw surgery. I had a BSSO to correct my underbite 3 months ago and I believe that my maxilla should have been advanced as well. I truly believe I now look worse after his surgery because my upper jaw looks recesses and pushed back. My teeth aren't as prominent as they should be from the side and from the front and when I talk it looks like I barely have any tooth show. I keep bringing this up to my surgeon but he keeps claiming that everything is fine but I don't believe him."
"I had upper jaw surgery some time ago to correct an underbite and I'm not happy with the result. For some reason my upper lip did not get advanced or enlarged when the upper jaw was moved forward so now there's a downward slope near it when you look at my face from the side. Because of this, it still looks like I have a bit of an underbite even though my occlusion is now good. Anyone have any ideas of what went wrong or what could be done?"
I tried to talk to the initial surgeon about how unhappy I was, but as soon as I brought up my first complaint he brushed me off. He seemed to be getting annoyed just by that one complaint, so I was too scared to bring anything else up.
"I relapsed a few months later fml 
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"I feel I lost apart of me. I am not sure why this happened in my case but wanted to bring awareness of this outcome."
"I've had jaw surgery and I hate it. I'm going on a year in may of having jaw reconstructive surgery. I wanted a shorter more uniformed face. Initially I had a fat long face. Now my face is long and thin and my cheek bones way to pronounced and my chin is fat!!! I hate it so much. My face is so much longer and my lips are mis-shapen. I look like a man in drag now. Now I'm so depressed and sad all the time. I've list friends. I've lost a guy. I'm so not happy with my big skinny face. Oh and my depression has caused me to lose my job. I don't know what to do now."
"I had an extremely bad experience with my bimax surgery. I think my result ended up looking extremely bad and like a mutilated face, people have no idea how bad. It ended up looking way too overadvanced. As a result of this surgery I think I ended up feeling really down beyond belief. People I have asked think that I ended up looking so much worse after the surgery. I haven't even mentioned all the worst parts."
"My lip and chin feel burnt and like its not part of my face. This is having a negative effect on my quality of life to be honest. When I was told there was a risk of permanent nerve damage, I said I didn't mind and would be able to cope with it but now that I am faced with the possibility of living the rest of my life with this it's a different story."