For ‘nose’ questions, a picture is worth 1,000 words
I took these pictures while I was riding the Caltrain using the Photobooth application on my Mac a few weeks ago. It’s been almost 9 months since my upper jaw advancement surgery, and I think I look a lot more like I used to look - except that I have perfect teeth and no puffy jaw from strained biting and chewing.
These pictures aren’t the best quality, also note that it’s got the ‘mirror’ effect because that’s how the iSight camera on the Mac works - like looking in the mirror rather than being photographed naturally from the front).
Lots of people have been asking nose questions - I totally understand this because that was a big concern of mine before jaw surgery as well. You think, hmm, if they’re going to move my upper jaw forward, isn’t that going to change my nose a lot? Maybe you like your nose as it is and don’t want it to go anywhere. Or, maybe you’ve just had jaw surgery and don’t like the way your nose turns up much more than usual.
Remember that your swelling doesn’t fully go away until about 4 months after surgery, impacting your ‘look’ until it subsides. Don’t judge anything till then! You’ll be sorry you wasted all that time worrying.
Check out my pictures! I don’t think I look like Miss Piggy, but if I’m mistaken, by all means let me know 
My nose 9 months after upper jaw surgery
My nose from the side after upper jaw surgery
My nose from the other side after upper jaw surgery
Susan, I’ll probably just cough up the money and have the surgery in Toronto.
Alessandra, I’ve never heard of ‘taching the cartilage’, you should try asking your question on realself.com. I’ve found you can get good answers there.
Here’s the response I got from my question:
http://www.realself.com/question/Rhinoplasty-refinement-tip-projection
A few pics of my nose, before, now and future? If anyone’s interested:
http://jawregret.blogspot.com/2009/10/nose-job-day-48-week-7.html
Alessandra, if you reversed the surgery would your nose go back to it’s narrow shape or is the damage done irreversible? It has been over 3 months with my nose and I am still unhappy with the whole procedure. I am going to ask the surgeon about the nose going back to it’s original state next week. Will
Every jaw patient, has anyone had trouble with the swelling of the gum tissue inside of the mouth? I have a flap of tissue that hangs down on my two front teeth that is still swollen 3 months after surgery. Does this take a long time to go away? Will it go down ever? Will
If only I could post pictures of my face, I look so dramatically different, and it’s not in a good way. My nose, well pretty much disappear, I have no dorsum whatsoever and my nostrils are so high!
Naike,
What did you have done again? The same thing happened to me.
Hi Jay,
I had a maxillary advancement done in June 2009, the aesthetic results were very dissatisfying. As much as my surgery was primarily motivated by medical reasons, I just could not live with that face. In July 2099 I had a bimaxillary osteotomy. Unfortunately, I still look like I did after the first surgery, the nose being the biggest and most difficult change to accept