Asymmetric (uneven) Face

Bleep,

I have to echo what methos has said. In fact I can't see it at all.

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

How about a pic from the side? That's the only way I notice anything...

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

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http: //img204.imageshack.us/img204/2484/p260808 1556rt6.jpg
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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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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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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!

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!

Japer - how did you consult a facial surgeon through MSN messenger? Was it someone you knew or an online consultation service?