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I was reading a thread about a woman who had FFS done 3 years ago and claimed that her chin and jaw had grown back... is this a thing? I'm really worried about FFS being a waste of time if everything grows back.

No.

It might be swelling, muscle, or scar tissue. Sometimes muscle is taken out. But I never heard that bone grows back to the level that you can notice it.

If a bone is broken, it regrows to mend it's self. In Asia they have a procedure where they break the bones in your legs and over a period of weeks move them apart. This is done in order to give men additional height as the bone fills in the space that is created as the bones move apart. It is painful and I wouldn't recommend it.

I have also heard of a way to trick the body using a material that the body will build bones around. As I understand it, it is used when a bone is badly damaged and needs to be reconstructed.

Except in a few special cases. The bone stops growing once it has reached it's proper size. I would not expect bone regrowth to normal occurs after FFS unless something really out of the ordinary happens.

It may depend on personal medical conditions. There have been cases in which someone continued growing well after they should have stopped. My guess is, unless you are one of those rare individuals, your bone won't grow back.
I certainly hope the bone removed from my spine does not grow back. Bone spurs pinching nerves is incredibly painful.

I would assume the person is on blockers and their T is suppressed.

I had FFS 7 weeks ago and I would never have gone through it if I thought I would have regrowth.

My bone work included orbitals were ground down, I had a type 3 forehead and mandible and chin work.

Although it is a  way to lose weight :)

I doubt that this is possible - bone can mend, but it is hard to grow or loose bone when it comes to the outer shape of it once you are an adult. Also, if HRT is working, even if there would be some regrow of bones, it should regrow in a feminine patterns. Some say, if you have working HRT with all , estradiol, progesterone, enough vitamins and working thyroid glands and all that, the bone may even change towards female patters over decades - too long to wait for it, of course, but some claim their bone structure already changed after 10 years - sadly few trans people get a really great hormone therapy, often it is combined with spiro, estradiol pills, low dosage estradiol, lack of progesterone, no check on vitamin D and B12 and no check on thyroid hormones or cortisol or IGF1, so such changes would probably be rare

No, that much bone won't grow back. However, in some cases the bone may grow back unevenly (bone spurs). In fact, that's what happen to me. I'm very prone to complications. After my type 3 forehead contouring, a small bump and a little bone over my left brow grew back, what the CT scan technician called a "cortical defect." It bothered me enough to go back and get it fixed. So yes, it's possible some bone may grow back, but it's unlikely, and would be a small amount if it did. Not a reason to avoid ffs.

-Ruby

Can this be fixed minimal invasively or did you have to get a full FFS again?

More likely bone spurs or something. Dr D has said he's taken patients back under to remove the wires from his Type 3 reconstruction, only to find the bones he had wired together had indeed grown together though.