No jaw pain / problems. Just fkn hate my smile
Hey team. I've hated my smile my whole life. I had braces at 12 then Invisalign around 20.
I've always had small teeth and a gummy smile too, one side worse than the other as you can see.
I've had Botox to help the gummy smile but it just makes my smile look even worse.
You can see the left side of my 'arch' appears collapsed. Apparently this can happen when braces are applied to early. Either way, both side of my arch are too narrow.
I had an online video consultation back in 2020 with a maxillofacial surgeon who quoted me 40k AUD and said he would change my life breathing wise too. I never went ahead, he gave me bad vibes and has now been stripped of his licence. I can't afford 40k AUD regardless so I didn't even get the scans ($3.5k)
(Good) thing is I don't have any jaw issues, no pain or anything. I've been told I grind at night but not for a long time. So i'm worried having jaw surgery would introduce issues I didn't have before, since my complaint is purely aesthetic, though the surgeon did say I would wake up ready to jump out of bed everyday (since his surgery would allow more air into my lungs haha). I've always been a very tired person but I guess that and my sloped neck are the only other indicator of a narrow airway.
If you guys are good at identifying/listing the things wrong, I'd love to hear it so I can explore maybe some problems or options I haven't heard of or considered yet.
Because I have no pain or functional issues I feel jaw surgery is like taking a gun to a fist fight, but I also want to figure out what I could do to help this shite. 😂