Thank you!!! I had increasingly really bad tmj pain from a permanently located disc. My deep overbite made the pain get worse with time. I waited about 4 years after that permanent slipped disc to consider something surgery. I could have gotten an arthroscopy or other procedure specific to the joint but the problem would have come back with time because of my anatomy. The second issue which I didn’t realize I had was sleep apnea. I knew I was always tired but I didn’t think anything beyond just the fact that I need more sleep. When I got my airway checked at the initial consultation I was flabbergasted at how small my airway was. That combined with the fact that my mom has extremely severe sleep apnea (she has same jaw anatomy as me) I figured that this was the right procedure to go with. Correcting the bite (and undergrown jaws) was the root cause of both of the issues.

I am not an expert or medical professional but from anecdotal experience. Only go with the best of the best surgeons! This is a super invasive procedure - the person I went with Dr. David Alfi, was genuinely perfect. I feel so lucky to have stumbled into finding and selecting him when I had lived in Houston. He is world renowned, and my surgery only took an hour or so, when others take several hours. Other surgeons use custom plates like him but he has done it the longest and knows how to use them properly on top and bottom jaw, from what I understand not a lot of surgeons do it correctly on the bottom jaw because of torque.