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When aspiring to get bimax I photohopped myself from side profile and thought "yeah the more I move both of my jaws forward the more of an antefaced, forward grown mogger I look like"
What you dont take into consideration though is that advancement in 2D doesnt translate aesthetically into real life 3D
Despite already having a mandible thats too long for my face (underbite) so long as I moved the maxilla forward enough, there was room for another couple of mm of mandible advancement (the Alfaro protocal) or so I thought...
Having actually had bimax with the mandible moved back by a mm, I am quite happy I was not dogmaxxed more
It's only when you see your new face in mirrors that you can appreciate how much your upper maxilla holds you back from dogmaxxing
When your entire maxilla is recessed, you cant conceptualize how it would look for your lower maxilla to be brought forward causing an upper/lower discrepancy
Once it is moved forward and your manidble is aligned with your new maxilla, you see just how absurd it looked to have an mandible that was overly long for you face that you were just always used to
Now after surgery, in the post orthodontics stage I found myself stressing if I thought my mandible might creep forward by a millimetre again because I can see how out of line it would put it relative to my skull cube boundaries, even though it was furlongs out of the boundary before
Imagine this is your head
Being too dogmaxxed just moves your anteface too far out of your skull cube boundaries while your upper face remains it's natural level of flatness
What you dont take into consideration though is that advancement in 2D doesnt translate aesthetically into real life 3D
Despite already having a mandible thats too long for my face (underbite) so long as I moved the maxilla forward enough, there was room for another couple of mm of mandible advancement (the Alfaro protocal) or so I thought...
Having actually had bimax with the mandible moved back by a mm, I am quite happy I was not dogmaxxed more
It's only when you see your new face in mirrors that you can appreciate how much your upper maxilla holds you back from dogmaxxing
When your entire maxilla is recessed, you cant conceptualize how it would look for your lower maxilla to be brought forward causing an upper/lower discrepancy
Once it is moved forward and your manidble is aligned with your new maxilla, you see just how absurd it looked to have an mandible that was overly long for you face that you were just always used to
Now after surgery, in the post orthodontics stage I found myself stressing if I thought my mandible might creep forward by a millimetre again because I can see how out of line it would put it relative to my skull cube boundaries, even though it was furlongs out of the boundary before
Imagine this is your head
Being too dogmaxxed just moves your anteface too far out of your skull cube boundaries while your upper face remains it's natural level of flatness
