Hello. Before surgery, due to maxillary protrusion, I always had my mouth open quite a lot, and I had open bite, a recessed chin, and an underbite all together, so daily life was very uncomfortable. Without realizing it, my expression always looked sulky, so I was also misunderstood as being cold or having a bad personality, which is why I ended up having jaw surgery. I had jaw surgery and contouring x3 (cheekbones, square jaw, chin) at [Clinic A], and it's already been 6 months haha. Now, except for a very small area around the front teeth inside my mouth, all sensation in my face has returned. They said it can take more than a year, but I seem to have recovered quickly. Now I'm also relieved that I can eat chewy things as much as I want, so I've been happily eating haha My expression has also relaxed a lot, so the days when I used to worry about when this swelling would finally go down are gradually being forgotten. My friends and even my mother-in-law and other family members tell me every time we meet that it looks much better after the surgery, which made me happy~!! The fact that it became so natural is clear because my parents live overseas, so I only see them once a year. When I met my parents at the 6-month mark after surgery, they didn't recognize that my face had changed at all?? I tend to worry my parents very much, so I had the surgery in secret without telling them at all. I was nervous that they would find out I had surgery, but they didn't recognize me at all, which was so funny and amazing. Before surgery I worried a lot about ending up with a granny-like aged look or an overly obvious plastic-surgery look, but those worries turned out to be unnecessary.. It looks exactly the same, but only my rough edges were smoothed out, and I like that even more. My ideal style used to be something like actress Jun Ji-hyun in her prime, with a pure and natural beauty (?) haha Of course it's impossible to become exactly like Jun Ji-hyun, but I'm quite satisfied with my face now ^^ The doctor said that compared with the 3-month mark, my case is one where there is not a huge difference in photos even at 6 months! In reality, though, a lot of the small residual swelling has gone down, so my expression has become much more natural, and that seems to be the biggest difference. It reminds me of the old days when I had a protruding mouth and used to smile while covering my mouth or trying not to show my teeth, forcing the corners of my mouth down. After living like that for about 30 years, even now it still feels a bit awkward to change the habit of smiling naturally and brightly, but I do try to smile that way. It feels amazing that even when someone is staring at me from beside me, I no longer feel the need to turn my head angle or cover part of my face with my hair. I used to think I didn't really have any appearance-related complexes, but maybe each of those little behaviors was itself a complex,, It is not exactly a life reversal!!! but more like life staying the same! Still, I am happy that I can now come across to other people as more friendly and lovely than the cold, hard-to-approach image I used to have~
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