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Technically this can apply to any surgery but I'm choosing bimax for this example.
It's genuinely insane that people care so little about seeing what their result is actually like that they can't take a miniscule amount of time for a proper photo
Time and money it takes for a proper photo:
-2-5 Minutes to find a proper place in your house to put your phone that's around eye level and 2 meters away
-2-5 Minutes to retake the photo in case you were tilting your head too much compared to Frankfort Plane, weren't taking it 100% from the side etc.
-At absolute worst you'll have to spend 20 dollars on a shitty phone tripod from Amazon if your place doesn't have a good spot to do this
-Multiply this by 2 (before and after the surgery)
Total cost: 8-20 minutes of your life, potentially 20 bucks
Time and money it takes for bimax
-In some cases free depending on where you are, but in a lot of cases could run you 10,000-40,000 dollars. Even more if you go with Sailer or something
-Thousands for the braces / invisalign too btw
-A year of decomp, perhaps even more depending on the case. This will add on tons of hours to your life cleaning, adjusting eating habits, visiting the ortho etc.
-If you go to a foreign surgeon you now have to factor in flights, the hotel etc.
-Multiple days of your life at the least, perhaps even weeks for the "heavy recovery" part where it's hell on earth
Total cost: Tens of thousands of dollars, so much time that I'm not even gonna calculate it
Yet when it's time for people to see their result, what do they do? They take some random selfie that is at a completely different angle, a completely different head tilt, from a completely different distance away. It's just absurd. For normies who get the surgery entirely for fixing a bite I get it at least, but if you're going to do bimax with the primary motivation being aesthetics then it's really weird you don't want to see the TRUE aesthetic outcome. People will always worry about getting underadvanced or overadvanced but the only way you can objectively tell is by taking a proper photo
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this and people just wanna fraud by tilting their head down in the before and up in the after l0l
It's genuinely insane that people care so little about seeing what their result is actually like that they can't take a miniscule amount of time for a proper photo
Time and money it takes for a proper photo:
-2-5 Minutes to find a proper place in your house to put your phone that's around eye level and 2 meters away
-2-5 Minutes to retake the photo in case you were tilting your head too much compared to Frankfort Plane, weren't taking it 100% from the side etc.
-At absolute worst you'll have to spend 20 dollars on a shitty phone tripod from Amazon if your place doesn't have a good spot to do this
-Multiply this by 2 (before and after the surgery)
Total cost: 8-20 minutes of your life, potentially 20 bucks
Time and money it takes for bimax
-In some cases free depending on where you are, but in a lot of cases could run you 10,000-40,000 dollars. Even more if you go with Sailer or something
-Thousands for the braces / invisalign too btw
-A year of decomp, perhaps even more depending on the case. This will add on tons of hours to your life cleaning, adjusting eating habits, visiting the ortho etc.
-If you go to a foreign surgeon you now have to factor in flights, the hotel etc.
-Multiple days of your life at the least, perhaps even weeks for the "heavy recovery" part where it's hell on earth
Total cost: Tens of thousands of dollars, so much time that I'm not even gonna calculate it
Yet when it's time for people to see their result, what do they do? They take some random selfie that is at a completely different angle, a completely different head tilt, from a completely different distance away. It's just absurd. For normies who get the surgery entirely for fixing a bite I get it at least, but if you're going to do bimax with the primary motivation being aesthetics then it's really weird you don't want to see the TRUE aesthetic outcome. People will always worry about getting underadvanced or overadvanced but the only way you can objectively tell is by taking a proper photo
Or maybe I'm just overthinking this and people just wanna fraud by tilting their head down in the before and up in the after l0l
