I've mentioned in a few posts about this crooked smile thing I have going on. At first with all the swelling and everything else I just chalked it up to my muscles/face being off still. BUT.... I had my suspicions it was actually my jaw and teeth lower on my right side and higher on my left. I know my bite has felt super funny on the left side and my teeth are definitely not lined up. Again, I wasn't worried since people usually get fine tuning done with the orthodontist post op. I saw my ortho yesterday, and within the first two seconds of his assistants coming over to check out my new grin, they all said "wow, looks great, but you definitely have a cant slanting down to your right." I was relieved to know that I wasn't crazy with my suspicions, but sad that I was right. I don't want to be right. What if this is something that can't be fixed with braces post op? My midlines are also off. Ortho said he thinks he can fix it, but it's going to take a lot of work on his end. The assistants said it should be fixable too, but I just can't shake this bad feeling I have about this. Even back with this xray I looked at it (even though I am no doc and don't really know what I'm looking at) and thought my jaws looked slanted/crooked:
I don't think it's a coincidence that my teeth are showing a cant where the left side is higher than the right, which is also exactly what is coming up on this xray. My ortho rebonded a bunch of brackets on the top teeth and put me in elastics on the left side to start trying to pull everything over and down. I feel like it looks even worse today! I don't know if that is because some of the brackets are higher on one side than the other and it's just accentuating and making the slant more obvious, but my bite feels worse too. My left teeth around my k9 tooth are coming down on top of each other tooth to tooth. Again, I just have a bad bad feeling about this. I'm worried sick that I am going to be pulled in to fix this with a second surgery. I don't want to go through all of that again. And I just cleared the hurdle of getting almost all of my feeling back around my top jaw, cheek, and eye, and I don't want to have to roll the dice on another surgery and possibly end up with numbness that will be permanent this time. My orthodontist was pretty reassuring that he could fix it, but I'm not going to lie.... I have my doubts. I have another follow up appointment with my surgeon on Monday, so I'll chat with her about it. I hope they can give me a straight honest answer on what should be done about it. If she feels really confident this can be fixed with ortho, then I guess I'll feel a little bit better about all of this. I'll be praying to the jaw surgery powers that be that I won't need to go in for a second surgery. If I end up in that boat, it is what it is, but I'm not going to lie-- I'm going to be pretty devastated. :(
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