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chelsea___wtf posted...

I have a friend who coincidentally had jaw bite correction surgery a few days after FFS, so we've been bonding over the similar parts of the s***ty recovery. I don't think they needed to wire her jaw shut, though.

I can't tell if that's bad timing or good timing. It'd at least mean she was only recovering from jaw surgery once, effectively, rather than going through the whole process and having to do it again later. I'm guessing it was a fairly minor correction, too, if she didn't need to be immobilized. They took my top jaw forward 4 mm and my bottom jaw back 6 mm, correcting an underbite, open bite, and cross bite in the process, so mine was pretty radical. It ended up causing some permanent nerve damage, actually, so the bottom left quarter of my lips doesn't have quite as much sensation in it as the rest do, but I only ever really notice that when I pay attention.

You do look less swollen than I was, though. I looked like a chipmunk for the first few days, with how massively my cheeks swelled up. And then with the way the blood drained, I ended up with a giant triangular bruise down into my chest, which would have been alarming if they hadn't specifically warned me about it.