My Thoughts Before Surgery

As I sit here with our chihuahua (who also has a under bite, I will take a photo to show you sometime) this is what my thoughts are before surgery.

Chloe our chihuahua as a pup hiding her under bite

1. I'm sick waiting for the last few years for it and can't wait to get it done
2. I'm starting to worry a bit more about the recovery, mainly not eating and weight loss
3. Excited, but nervous to find out how I will look afterwards. How different will I look. 
4. Will I be left with some permanent numbness or will I be fortunate to regain all feeling in my face
5. How long will it take before I can get back to work

I know everyone recovers at a different rate so it will take a while to find out the answers to these questions. It will be interesting looking back on these questions in the future when I know the answers. I'm sure lots of people have these same questions before surgery.

Reasons for Surgery

Eating is a problem: Try eating a burger when your front teeth don't meet together and you only use your back teeth. I take a bite and as I try and pull the burger away from my mouth I realise that my teeth have not cut fully through the bun, burger and worst of all, salad.

This means the contents of the lovely burger doesn't want to stay in my mouth. My options are either to continue pulling the burger away in which case the contents ends up falling all over me or I have to keep pushing the contents into my mouth  and trying to tear the burger apart using what useful teeth I have until I am able to break a piece off which results in a full mouth and is quite messy.

Side profile and look of my jaw and teeth:  I don't like the look of my side profile and my under bite. Since the opportunity has came up to improve this, then I would like to do so. It's not a massive deal but at certain times I feel more self conscious about it and don't like photos of me side on. If I can have a better bite and smile, then why not?