Hiya, I know what you mean, I was bullied a lot when I was in school
too, but I never really let it get to me. I've always took a 'its
their problem not mine' take on things like that.
Before my operation I saw a psycologist too, was just a necessarry
thing I had to go through, to say 'how I felt about it all' and I
talked a lot about being selfconcious and so on.
The last surgery I had before this was when I was ten, which was a
complete re-do of my lip and pallet, but as I got older it was my
nose which was causing the most grief to me. So when I was about 13
I was informed that once my face had stopped growing, I would have
the choice to have any cosmetic surgery I wanted to my face. And
now, I'm 18 and was finally given the oportunity, and so have had a
nose job and my lip re-alined (which i'm guessing is similar to what
you had) I'm still quite swolen now, but I can already see a huge
improvement to my lip though, your right, you don't realise just how
uneven it's been untill you see what can be done!
I had braces too from 1997 through 2002, then I made the silly
mistake to have them removed because after so many years I was just
fed up. Now my teeth are still quite uneven near where the ridge in
my pallet is, but, I've been referred to my local dental hospital,
and I'm going to be getting some dental surgery to correct that.
(wuhu!)
I've babbled a lot now too, so I'll shut up, hehe, thanks for
sharing emma :)

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--- In leftclip@yahoogroups.com, ecroyston@a... wrote:
>
> Hiya Sacha,
>
> I'm Emma. Not sure we've 'met' before. I've been on here for ages
too. What
> kind of cosmetic surgery did you have? I had some when I was 13 in
2001, and
> until I was watching a home video last weekend I never realized
how
> successful the operation actually was! My top lip used to be
really uneven, but now it
> is a lot better. I mainly had that operation because I got bullied
at
> school. I saw a psychologist (not sure why - she was at one of the
cleft clinics
> and she wanted to see me so she did. She had the coolest leather
recliner ever
> in her office though!) but I'm not sure how much it helped.
> Also, you could see how uneven my teeth were ten years ago. I had
traintrack
> braces between 1998 and 2002, and I still have a retainer now. My
teeth
> aren't totally straight even now, but they're so much better than
they were! OK,
> I'll stop going on now...
>
> How old are you, by the way?
>
> Emma
>
> xxx
>
>
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