Hey, im an 18 year old male, and have just
started to notice my face is asymetrical..
i always hated having photos taken dead
on.. and i would always take them from a
certain side.. but now recently i have
started to notice differences between my
elft and right side, no one has ever
mentioned this to me.. and really i cant
see why not, it looks fairly obvious to
me.. so i could be crazy or blind..
usually people have actually told me im
good looking.. but these pictures seem to
say the oppositte.. i have no clue what to
do.. one eye is deffinatley bigger than
the other and it looks hideous :/ http://img
356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asym1ty3.jp
g
mask ftw?
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methos64
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Posted: 08-24-08 18:33pm
Bleep2
wrote:
Hey, im an 18 year old male,
and have just started to notice my face is
asymetrical.. i always hated having photos
taken dead on.. and i would always take
them from a certain side.. but now
recently i have started to notice
differences between my elft and right
side, no one has ever mentioned this to
me.. and really i cant see why not, it
looks fairly obvious to me.. so i could be
crazy or blind.. usually people have
actually told me im good looking.. but
these pictures seem to say the oppositte..
i have no clue what to do.. one eye is
deffinatley bigger than the other and it
looks hideous :/ http://img
356.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asym1ty3.jp
g
mask ftw?
well ur face looks heaps normal than
mine does. it really isnt as noticeable.
at least not with that lighting.
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MichaelUK
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Posted: 08-25-08 12:25pm
Bleep,
I have to echo what methos has said. In
fact I can't see it at all.
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Bleep2
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Posted: 08-25-08 13:27pm
Hmm, thats good i guess.. personally id
rather be crazy and blind than have people
see in my face what i see in it or 'think'
i see in it
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hpnotiq1
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Posted: 08-25-08 16:12pm
How about a pic from the side? That's the
only way I notice anything...
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Bleep2
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Posted: 08-26-08 10:17am
OK here are 5 pics.. profile from each
side.. slightly tilted from each side and
one dead on.. let me know what u think..
rate it 1-10.. 10 being totally
asymetrical.. 1 being perfectly
symetrical
i really dont see any thing thats overly
crooked other than ur nose.
compare ur self to this http://tinyurl.com/6aeqnv
cause that girl has the same thing i do
and she went thru the surgery that i will
soon undergo. and u see the instant
difference. compare urself to that
'before' pic.
in neither pic u posted do u smile. if ur
teeth are slanted at all like this girls.
THEN i would say u should be paranoid as
ever. if they are straight. then theres
probably little to nothing wrong with ur
jaw.
ur face may just be that way in its
natural state. cause everyone has slight
facial asymmetry, but its just due to skin
and muscle tissue, not so much the
underlying skeleton. which is what most
of us seem to have on here.
in all honesty, i would kill to have ur
facial features. cause ur face looks damn
normal compared to mine. and mine is
giving me alot of pain and discomfort for
a while now. so if u are not in any pain ,
then youre probably fine. and theres
nothing wrong with you.
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hpnotiq1
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Posted: 08-26-08 20:36pm
I don't see anything major either...
usually when you take pics from a certain
angle, your face should look really
different than what your used to... that's
what really bothers me...
but you look the same in all pics...
Methos: What type of surgery do you have
to go through? Is this a condition?
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methos64
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Posted: 08-26-08 21:56pm
i forgot what the specific name for the
surgery was. but its basically just
rearranging my jaw so its straight. where
they fix the 'cant' (upperjaw) so that the
teeth are horizontal. and pull my lower
jaw to the right because unlike most were
the lower jaw moves crooked along with the
upperjaw. my lower jaw went even further
to the left than what youd expect. so yeah
its pretty messed up.
the condition i have is called condylar
hyperplasia.
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fakeplastik1
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hi guys Posted: 08-29-08 02:21am
I'm also a victim of lack of facial
symmetry, but it is locating specifically
in the lower third of my face. In fact,
it appears to only be my chin bone (if
there is such a thing) that is
asymmetrical - when i was 11 or so I went
ice skating and face planted on the ice.
I had to get stitches and whatnot, but it
appears the trauma from the ice actually
dented my chin and and forced the bone to
protrude in the area surrounding my scar.
so my question is.... does any one else
have the same problem? and is there some
procedure i could undergo, like chin
shaving or something to make it like the
undamaged side? anyway, i'll upload
photos and such tomorrow.
my jaws and the rest of my face are pretty
damn symmetrical. but i notice the
irregularity of one side of my chin
affects other parts of my face - how skin
rests on my cheekbones etc etc.
thanks again
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Biani
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Posted: 08-30-08 11:58am
Bleep: i don't really see anything crooked
with you. And on the side pics i think you
look the same. You look symmetrical enough
to pass as a normal person, haha.
Fakeplastic: I do think there's a
procedure you could undergo... When i got
my wisdom teeth out and i pointed out my
asymmetry to the maxillofacial surgeon,
she sugested to do an operation in which
she would slice my chin and move it a
little to my right, to 'camouflage' my
asymmetry. Not the wisest choice in my
case, but, they do that sort of thing.
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zigemyster
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Posted: 08-30-08 13:57pm
Dear Bleep2,
Are you a perfectionist? Stop it! There
is nothing wrong with your face. Have you
heard of the saying 'you are your own
worst enemy'?
You are obsessing over minor things that
truly only you can see. Nobody is
perfect. Please do not go under the
knife. There are many who would love to
have your features. Count your
blessings.
Let's take a look at someone who did not
need surgery but he went anyway...remember
the Michael Jackson before (Thriller days)
and then after...he is now hidious...and
then there are other stars / ordinary
people who want to be perfect and in truth
there was nothing wrong with their
features to begin with but they obsessed
& saw flaws that no one else did.
Take Burt Reynolds, Joan Rivers and that
Cat Woman, etc...just plain terrible.
Listen to the people that have told you
that you are good-looking. Don't mess it
up.
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gimlet
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Posted: 09-02-08 12:40pm
Bleep2 - I think I see the asymmetry
you're talking about, but I'm not so sure
that it's not just a figment of my
imagination, it's so minor. Your right jaw
looks slightly more developed and your
left eye looks slanted downward ever so
slightly.
The only reason I notice it, by the way,
is because my face does something similar,
(only it's about 4 times worse and visibly
noticeable), and I know what to look for.
I also had to do some copy and paste magic
with your photo which helped me see it
more clearly.
That said, I'd say you win the prize for
LEAST asymmetrical person here (mine is
probably four times worse than yours, and
noticeable).
On a scale of 10 (10 being perfect) you're
probably around a 9. You look near
perfect, and well within a normal range.
Nothing that anyone would ever notice,
neither consciously or even
subconsciously, and in no way does it
detract from your looks. Seriously, you're
pretty good looking the way you are, so
don't even worry about it.
Methos - that photo is interesting - her
nose looks straight pre-surgery and
crooked after! I guess relative to her
pre-surgery jaw, it was straight. Goes to
show that abnormalities during growth can
throw off other aspects of your face.
I have something similar happening with my
teeth, only it's not as obvious. I'm
nearing the end of my brace treatment and
I can still see it, but I guess my ortho
doesn't feel that surgery is necessary, so
this is the best I'm going to get. I think
in my case the crookedness is caused by
the underdevelopment of one side, rather
than the overdevelopment of a condyle, so
I guess it can't fixed in the same way.
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rikky
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Posted: 09-02-08 19:50pm
my jaw is assymetrical as well. i look
different depending which side you look at
me from and my smile is crooked. i also am
unable to wink, can't whistle through my
teeth, and do not know how many feet are
in a mile. big deal.
think about this for a minute. is it
really worth the undoubtedly high cost of
surgery to fix one little flaw that no one
but you notices? you are the way you are!
before plastic surgery came along, people
got along just fine with crooked noses and
jaws. they were still happy, attractive
people who led meaningful lives. unless
your "deformity" causes pain or threatens
your health, get over it!
here's a trick i use-- whenever i get too
self-conscious or concerned with how i
look, i just do something to get my mind
off of myself and on more important things
(work, family, friends, etc.)
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gimlet
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Posted: 09-02-08 20:51pm
Rikky - really? Then how did you end up on
a message board for cosmetic surgery for
assymmetry? ;o)
But seriously, I think irregularities in
our faces often seem worse to us than they
do to other people. It's our face
afterall, we feel it, we see it daily and
sometimes we assume that others must see
it the same way that we do - with that
same shock that we experienced when we
first saw our own faces in inverted
mirrors.
Furthermore, there's a huge social
pressure to be perfect, especially as
we're told constantly that symmetry is a
subconscious marker of health and
therefore attractiveness. Personally, I
live in a city known for it's beautiful
women, and so to be less than average
looking with that kind of competition is
difficult - I think even the strongest
people would succumb to obsessing from
time to time!
That said, I don't think every person who
comes here is looking for information
about surgery. Some just arrive here
through googling asymmetry (like me), and
for many people here it helps them
normalize what they're experiencing and
get an honest perspective from strangers
who are seeing them for the first time,
and who are more likely to notice the
irregularities.
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methos64
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Posted: 09-02-08 23:12pm
ditto.
for me it causes a bit of pain and a lot
of discomfort from time to time. just
biting down with a certain amount of force
can throw everything out of whack.
and it just looks grotesque to me. i
really dont care what other people think
whether they see it or not. it matters
more to me about what i think and what i
am content with. its aggravating that my
face was once normal and straight, and now
its not.
its not something you can just forget
about. you gotta live with it for the rest
of your life.
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japer
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hi Posted: 09-06-08 17:28pm
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japer
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hi Posted: 09-07-08 00:47am
I just discovered this forum yesterday and
just finished reading it (yes, it took me
a few hours to do so).
I realized that my face was assymetrical
like 3 years ago. Since that moment, every
day of my life has been like a bad dream
(a very bad one by the way...). I've
always been very careful with my looks
(clothes, hair, workout), and for that
reason I feel miserable every time I look
at myself at the mirror.
I really don't know if my friends have
noticed my condition, cause nobody has
ever told me anything about it. I think
that's the reason i've never told this to
any of my friends (i think they would look
at me in a diferent way after i told
them).
The only person who knows about this is my
mom, but every time i tell her that my
face is uneven she says that there's
nothing wrong with me (but i know she's
lying).
Unlike Biani or methos, my problem is not
the lower jaw. The cheekbones are my
issue. My left malar bone is a bit bigger
and is a little upper than the right one,
making the left side of my face look
different and somehow bigger than the
other.
I've been researching on the iternet for
the last year and consulted a facial
surgeon (by msn messenger) and there seems
to be a solution for my problem (by a
procedure called cheekbone reduction)
I've given this a lot of thought and i
think i wont be able to get over this
unless i can look at myself in the mirror
and not feel like crap. That's why i'm
planning to get surgery as soon as i
finish my economics degree (within the
next 8 months).
It's amazing how the stories you've told
look alike mine. It's like if i wrote them
myself. I'm glad that i'm not the only one
with this problem, i don't know why, but
reading this forum has given me courage to
get on with my life and have the strengh
needed to solve this problem.
Nice meeting ya all!
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gimlet
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Posted: 09-07-08 18:32pm
Hey guys,
I was just doing some online research and
found some of the pictures posted on this
board under google images ("uneven face"
produced a few of KiarraBeachBum's photos
and "condylar hyperplasia" produced
Biani's, although, I think from a
different site). It may be worthwhile, if
posting photos here, to delete or move
photos from your photosites after a few
days so that they don't get picked up in
google searches. It looks like Biani's
were picked up through links she supplied,
not even an imbedded image! It's no big
deal, but I think some people here are
already struggling self-esteem and may not
want to be the google images posterchild
for asymmetry. ;o)
JAPER - sounds like you're going through a
difficult time. It's crazy how these odd
anomolous adolescent developments can
really effect self-esteem.
It sounds like you're doing a lot better
than some of us, though, since your
asymmetry can be fixed! If you have a
substantial difference in your cheekbone,
you could also consider getting a cheek
implant on the weaker side - that is, if
you like the full side better. Otherwise,
I guess a reduction would do it.
Best of luck with your surgery!
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gimlet
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PS Posted: 09-07-08 18:36pm
Japer - how did you consult a facial
surgeon through MSN messenger? Was it
someone you knew or an online consultation
service?