Metal Mouth Message Board

If you have as adult undergone or are undergoing ALF treatment, I'd like to hear your experiences.

[quote="sirwired"]Modification of the mid-face surgically involves a LeFort II or III operation. Because of the risks involved with the operation, few (any?) surgeons will do them absent a major deformity. (The surgery takes many hours, involves risk to facial nerves, and often requires bl...

Anyone went trough trough any kind of treatment which allows remodeling bones in adults?I need to have my midface advanced (rims+zygos) for like 2mm to get off that tired, long and flat face, which came up with fat loss. Almost every surgeon declined to do such an advancement on me, since I do not h...

I dint read thread, but here is a question for OP: Do you have narrow maxillae and your tong doesn't fit it? Is your tong usually not on the top of the roof of the mouth?

Hi there, I have very weak midface with non-existant cheekbones (non-syndromic midface deficiency), which makes my face appear long, tired with prominent eyes and droopy eyelids. Few maxillo facial surgeons said me that I would need to undergo modified version of LeFortIII osteotomy, but nobody woul...