Following your surgery and throughout the post-operative recovery period, especially if your jaw is wired shut, you could lose as much as 10 percent of your body weight.
You may lose 5–10% of your normal body weight while jaws are wired shut. You will be limited to a liquid diet until your jaws are no longer tightly held together.
Corrective jaw surgery moves realign the jaw backward or forward, giving you a youthful and more pronounced smile. Jaw surgery can improve the proportions of different parts of your face, like a large nose.
Most patients can expect to be out of work or school for approximately 2-3 weeks if both jaws require surgery while that time is typically decreased if only a single jaw procedure is necessary.
For the first 3-4 days following surgery please limit your activity. It is important that you not confine yourself to bed.
Swelling: You can expect swelling to be the worst in the first week after oral surgery. It's usually most noticeable from three to five days after surgery, then it gradually lessens. Bruising: Bruising often accompanies swelling, and it dissipates as the swelling subsides.
It is not uncommon to experience some pain or pressure in or around your jaw joint areas after jaw surgery. This may feel somewhat like an earache. It is due to pressure in the jaw joint area due to the new position of your jaw. This will usually disappear within 2 to 3 weeks.
As you start to reconstruct your jaw and move things around, it can cause some vocal changes. You may experience speech and voice adjustments as these can be the effects of functional surgery. The difference in jaw positioning or shape can have an effect on voice frequencies.
It is worth noting that although mandibular orthognathic surgery would not directly change the nasal structure a relative change in appearance to the nose can be brought about by changing the position of the chin and vice-versa, Figure 1. Surgery to the maxilla will undoubtedly have effects on the nasal appearance.
Because getting a wisdom tooth removed can cause minor pain or discomfort, eating can be hard immediately after extraction. As a result, a patient's appetite can be impacted, and they may eat less or avoid eating solid food sometime after the procedure. This can cause weight loss in a lot of people.
You will need to eat a soft diet which needs very little chewing for at least six weeks after the surgery. This diet sheet goes through meal ideas for a liquid, purée, blended and soft diet.
Aim to lose around one to two pounds a week. Cutting out 500 calories a day adds up quickly to see results on your waistline — and your jawline.”
After 2 weeks you can commence a non-chew food diet. The rule of thumb is to eat food that you can easily squish between your fingers and anything that does not make any noise(ie hard or crunchy foods). Examples include: mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, fish and over-boiled/soft pastas cut into small pieces etc.
Your jaws will be wired together approximately six to eight weeks. This is the time it takes for the bones to heal in a good, strong union. During the time your jaws are wired together, you will find eating, talking and other daily activities somewhat difficult.
Orthognathic surgery aims to improve both the function and facial appearance of the patient. Translation of the maxillomandibular complex for correction of malocclusion is always followed by changes to the covering soft tissues, especially the nose and lips.
Jaw surgery, also known as orthognathic (or-thog-NATH-ik) surgery, corrects irregularities of the jaw bones and realigns the jaws and teeth to improve the way they work. Making these corrections may also improve your facial appearance.
You should continue to wear the rubber bands for four to six weeks unless otherwise directed by your orthodontist.
Swelling and Bruising.
Tissue injury, whether accidental or intentional (e.g. surgery), is followed by localized swelling. After surgery, swelling increases progressively, reaching its peak by the third day. It is generally worse when you first arise in the morning and decreases throughout the day.
After an oral procedure, you're likely to experience pain and swelling in your face and neck. Additionally, you may experience bruising and a sore throat, leading to disrupted sleep.
Jaw surgery is a major surgery that can disrupt your life for several weeks and months.
2- After some days or weeks since your surgery: “I don't look like me!” as swelling subsides and the results of the surgery are more and more visible, you might start feeling like your face is not your own; that's completely normal after a major surgery such as orthognathic surgery, but keep in mind that it's only you ...
However, the extensive bone and muscle manipulation and various movements during surgery may result in postoperative pain, especially in the TMJ. Positional changes of the mandible, maxilla, or both jaws during orthognathic surgery can affect the TMJ, masticatory musculature, and surrounding soft tissue [5, 6].
You may begin brushing your teeth the day after your surgery. Initially, you may want to avoid toothpaste, and simply use a toothbrush and warm water. Brush after each meal, and stay on the teeth and surrounding gums and avoid the incision sites.