Asymmetric (uneven) Face

Paralysis seems like it would be a pretty unlikely side effect. Complete paralysis would only result from damage to your central nervous system (brain, spine), which is probably impossible from jaw surgery.

Partial numbness might occur if part of the peripheral nervous system is damaged, like a nerve, but it's not necessarily permanent.

Your doctor is a specialist though, he would know the risks. If he says his only concern is infection, then that's probably all you should be worried about.

my face is uneven, 1 side is wider than the other this happened because of very poor dental hygiene at a young age and life style. i had a lot of candies n my mom did not feed me enough healthy food because we were poor plus at the age of 3/4 i remebered when i had a very tooth ACHE i think it was a cavity or something worse my mom did no take me to the dentist she just gave me medicine and when i was young my grandma told me to sleep on the right side because she thought that by sleeping on the left will cause heart attacks or something harmful to the heart, i'm soooo sad i wished that i nevered listen! and the shape of my head is FLAT, the back of my head is REALLY FLAT, boo hoo, my mom or caregiver did not take care of me i bet you that they just left me laying flat on the bed and back then the bed was solid HARD wooden or so.

as well as i always slept on one side for many many years till now, when my grown up teeth start growing in no one took me to the dentist to remove one baby tooth on the top right of the 2front teeth the one right beside it so it grew under/behind the baby tooth which made my face to become undeveloped. The way your face looks all depends on the linning of your teeth i did some studies on it. So it is always best to have braces.

(when your teeth do not close together evenly the face will change like if u are crassbite then your face is croocked/slanted, if you have over bite then your lip will look like a bird, and if the top teeth is smaller and the bottom is wider then the face will look unbalance, etc... so my jaw became uneven which made my face ugly)
*my left side of face is wider than right side, JAW lin is very uneven and the corner angle of the jaw on the left is bigger/huge than the right side plus the muscle is bigger as well.


results:
1- no one picked me up when i was a BABY and left me sleeping on a flat hard surface, so my head is FLAT like a WALL! so my head is flat at the back and i slept on the 1 side which put pressure on it gave me a flat side surface.
2-very poor dental hygiene every since i was young, all my baby teeth was black filled with cavity, no one took me to the dentist until my older teeth started growing in.
3-slept on 1 side of my face for many many yearsss untill now
4-uneven teeth closing together, 1 tooth(right side) grew behind the other which the bone did not expand normally like the other side.
5-when u have a cavity or sore gumm you need to get it fixed right away by going to the dentist otherwise the infection will go under the gumm to detoriate your bone. Plus brushing,flossing, and mouth wash is the key to good oral hygiene as well as going to the dentist regularly, now i go to the dentist almost every 3-4 months to get my teeth cleaned.
6-I got a hard nock out by someone very close, to the left side near the cheek and temple area which might've caused me to have TMJ
7-GENES
8-The widen/abnormal side will always have something wrong with it,studies said.. it's so true beause on that side of my face it seems to have more acne then other.
9-FACIAL Bone structure will stop growing by the age of 25, so get braces as young as POSSIBLE!
10- The head shape will determine on how the face shape will become as well, for instint: uneven head (ROUND head is the ideal shape) will result to uneven face, flat head will give you a wider face.


***HEY EvERYONE*** if any of these u have incommon/ related to, i think i know how to prevent it from happenning to your children when you have them.

CURES:
1- do the opposite of what i wrote at the top.
#1 KEY- hold your baby and try not to leave it laying for a long time, the goal is to achieve a ROUND OVAL head not flat or uneven, you should turn the head side to side it will put pressure on the sides not back and the result will give you more of an oval look. Adult's heaf usually weigh's 10pounds.
2- do not give infant or kids under 5 gumm or candies, by chewing gumm will make the muscle on the jaw bone bigger plus kids don't know how to take care of their teeth properly unless you teach them.
3- ORAL hygiene is VERY important! THE LOOKS of the face will detemine on the teeth inside of the mouth. if anything is wrong with your mouth like infection at a young age it's best if u get a surgery done. My b/f told me that he ate a lot of candies and had black cavities all over and had a surgery at the age of 5/6 and his face is very SYMMETRIC but the thing is i think that he has TMJ because whenever he opens his mouth i hear a clicking sound but i didn't mention it to him because i don't want him to stress out.
*The 4 frontal teeth is very important make sure that they grow evenly plus the back of the mouth/teeth should close,alined together it will help to balance out the face and* ***removing the WISDOM teeth you don't need it at ALL, most cases it will expand the jaw line and give it a bigger bone angled, best solution remove it once you feel or see it coming out, best ages would be 16yrs-20.
4-get BRACESSSSSS at a very young age is the best becuase at that time the bone structure is growing and by having braces it will help the face appear my symmetric.

I've notice that who ever has even teeth at the top and with the bottom closing together evenly looks more attractive then crooked teeth. people and kids who had braces looks more attractive then others.


Now i am going through braces and loving it so far it has been a yr and a qrtr, my teeth looks a lot better but i still notice that my jawline is still very uneven especailly when i ly down and that left side jaw corner the big bone is still there, i guess my bone feature facial stopped growing. BOO HOO
p.s. My Face looks abite more attractive now that i have braces.

learn more about your mounth, teeth and causes.


http: //www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article /001058.htm

Guys i could relate to you, all of you!..
Btw Has any of you tried looking at themselves from a distance? like standing infront of a mirror and looking from a good distance? God are the asymmetries obvious! :/ It's weird cause.. when i get close to the mirror not top close but looking from a reasonable distance it's kind of better... lol

Umm.. also for people who are considering surgey, I don't know how bad your asymmetries are.. but how can you be sure you'll be happy with the result? sometimes i wonder if i decided to go through surgery.. And if i eneded up with a symmetrical face which i doubt, Will i be happy with my new face? I know i love my current one! lol.. Sometimes i hate it like all of you and it's hard.. other times I love it!.. If we were born with symmetrical faces will they actually look better? or just normal.. but ugly? cause I'm beginning to believe that those asymmetries do not necesserily turn you to an 'ugly' person.. they might make you look a bit different, true.. but Is it really a bad thing? I still face problems accepting how i look somtimes, I try so hard not to obsess over it but I am a natural perfectionist And It kills me lol. Sometimes it's hard to get through the day.. especially if you receive a comment from someone about your face.. I don't know..but i think to fix this problem we'd probably need a 'psychological' solution.. not a a surgical one;) Dealing with how you feel, gaining self-confidence, learning how to accept yourself the way you are and LOVE It might be the answer.. And I'm still trying to learn that..

noticing my asymmetries made me a better person in a way and I'm proud of that! now when i see people and notice that there's something off about them it never bothers me or draws me away i can STILL see the beautiful things in that person, his personality... even beautiful things in their facial features, because that's how I'd like to be seen! Aaand thanks all for sharing your stories hehe;p

i think the same way.

i dont know if this asymmetry makes my face look ugly, but it just looks weird. i mean, seeing everybody else with normal symmetric faces, and then looking mine at the mirror just makes me feel like a freak.

the truth is i've been trying to get over this issue but i can't and i don't know what to do about it.

there are days in which i forget about my asymmetry, but other days like today i get really depressed and spend the whole day thinking that this isn't fair and that my life would be better with a symmetric face.

i guess i'm pretty messed up :p

Why not go to a facial surgeon?

ts funny and encouraging that there are so many people like me out there!
I have been studying this phenomenom for quite some time because I found very weird how I seemed like a totally different and uglier person in pictures and between two mirrors than what I looked like in a normal mirror.

I want to share what I have found in my "experiments".

One day I took a video camera and recorded a close up of my face, then, I recorded a close up of myself through a mirror. When I looked at the recording, the image I took through the mirror looked very similar to what Im used to see everyday... that could sound obvious because its the reversed image, but I wanted an opinion of someone else, so I showed the recording to my cousin, who laughed histerically at the recording and told me that I looked nothing like the first image (the one I recorded normally) and that my real looks (to her) were the ones recorded through the mirror (to my relief!). That proved that people perceive us just the same way we look in the mirror normally, not between the two mirrors.

I also took a regular pic.. the usual pic that I hate... in which I look horrible, asymmetrical and such and mirrored it in Photoshop, AND! I still looked horrible and asymmetrical.
I took myself pictures through the mirror and I looked more similar in them than what I look like through the mirror. I also mirrored those images in Photoshop, and I don't look horrible and asymmetrical.

Something else happened one day... I was washing my face in the bathroom and my dad came in, I happened to look at him through the mirror and was surprised to see his face was totally deformed! his nose was absolutely crooked to one side and his jaw and lips also. I asked him to look at himself through two mirrors opposing each other and asked him how he perceived himself... he told me his face was totally crooked, specially his nose, but he didnt see himself like that in real life. I don't see him that way either... only when i look at him through the mirror.

I asked him to look at me through the mirror. He laughed and told me I looked kinda crooked also, but that I didn't look like that in real life!!

I guess that those experiments prove to me that it doesnt depend on what has been discussed before... that we dont perceive our assymetry because we see an inverted image of ourselves through the mirror and we are used to it and blah blah. If that was the case, the moment we inverted the images in Photoshop, we would notice the differences, but that was not the case. It is about something else I still don't understand, but I want to assure you all, that what you see in the mirror everyday is what is real. Not the inverted version of you through the two mirrors, that only accentuates the assymetry, but its not what people see at all!!!

I want to suggest you do with someone the excercise i did with my dad. Look at someone through the mirror. They wont look the same way they look to you in real life (unless they are very very symmetrical). Ask them to see you through the mirror... they will tell you you look crooked (just as some of you here have shared) but they will also assure you that you don't look like that in real life.

We are beautiful people!!! we really are!!!

i too have what would be described as an asymmetrical face, its my right hand side. i have come to the conclusion that it has occured to due having a tooth pulled out before i had braces put on, supposedly becuase there was not enough room in my mouth. i only had one tooth removed at the back of my mouth, i believe it was one of the smaller ones (not the molars). why only one tooth was removed doesn't really make sense to me.

have any of the rest of you had a tooth or more removed in the upper jaw when you were younger?

I had just one removed in my upper jaw before braces too. I think it's called a premolar?
I think that had to do a lot with accentuating my asymmetry. In fact, i remember when my dentist took the braces off, she asked me to bite down, and when i did, i had to slide my lower jaw to my left just so i could make my upper and lower molars touch. I didn't think much of it back then, now i realize that can't be good!

Wow, i can't believe there was a forum including people with the same problems with me! And i thought i was the ONLY ONE. LOL.. btw i saw some of the earlier posts with pics and they all seemed pretty normal. I wasn't sure if your faces were asymmetrical at all! The left side of my face is fatter and seems like it has developed more muscles. I've had problems with my teeth and couldnt chew for months a long time ago, so i only chewed on one side. Then a couple years later, i checked my face out with 2 MIRRORS and it was hideous! One side was a bit bigger and a lil uplifted. It made my nose a bit curved to the other side...I kept getting compliments though! about how i look and that im very handsome -_-... During school a friend of mine that i practice bboying with saw my face through the huge dance practice mirrors on the wall, and he was like, " Wth, is that u? u look different.." then i stopped and went out and got a drink -_-... ive also had a gf a while ago, but broke up cuz of problems with my parents and grades and stuff -_-... anyways i heard that doing face exercise helps even ur face out a bit...ive tried for a bit, but dont no if its helping...so dont try it until ur sure it helps. ^^ and sorry for the long post. DONT FEEL BAD! i felt bad my whole life.. but i never gave up. I just got angry and kept up with everything else and just danced it off and chilled with friends! u have to accept urself for who u are and dont let ur life go to waste just cuz of a stupid thing like this. You've got more important things to care about than just physical appearances.