jawsurgery77

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I'm Korean American, but not too fluent in Korean myself, but when I had my parents help me with my research on places to get double jaw surgery in Korea, I realized there are tons and tons of places that seem to be well known to Koreans but I've never heard of doing research in English.

So I do think there is something to doing your research with the help of a Korean before going.

 

By one jaw I mean just lower jaw surgery, so they would move my lower jaw back, but not my upper jaw forward. It apparently will change my frontal image less, but it doesn't seem that common, especially in the Korean cosmetic surgery world.

 

And here is my face from the front



Because I don't think my underbite is really noticeable from the front, I actually wasn't even aware I had an underbite until college, when somebody pointed it out to me. I'd pretty much never seen myself from the side until then! Now I'm more keenly aware why everyone always asks me if something's wrong or why I look grumpy when I am feeling completely fine.
Basically, I think I am okay with how I look from the front (although maybe the more keenly aware female eyes could give me honest opinions about that too!), so I would like to keep my frontal facial identity if possible, unless the changes were natural and appealing enough (I know, it is very hard to define "natural"). The side profile I definitely would like to fix though.
Again, thank you for any comments or thoughts!

 

So I am currently in Korea right now, and I was planning to get jaw surgery here. My original plan was to get a two jaw surgery, and to be honest, I never even really considered single jaw surgery. The issue I want to fix is an underbite, as seen in the picture below (yes, I am male! I suspect most users are female here)



Since I've come here, one of the main issues that I have become worried about is whether to get one or two jaw surgery. It may be more of a philosophical question than a hard scientific one. Basically, the main thing I am worried about is how much better I can look, while also keeping my "facial identity", at least to the extent that it is possible. So on the one hand, I am worried that only having a one jaw, lower-jaw only surgery might barely change my appearance and make my surgery quite useless, while a two-jaw surgery might change my face too much and I won't really feel like myself anymore.

Has anyone else here had any similar worries? How did you resolve them? They don't necessarily have to be jaw surgery related, it could be any sort of cosmetic surgery where you were worried about changing too little or changing too much. Also, if you are more familiar with underbite/jaw issues, looking at my side profile, what kind of surgery would you recommend?

Thank you so much. I am definitely going through a lot of worries pre-surgery, and this forum is a lifesaver, thank you everyone.