You mean he willfully severed the nerve on the other side of your face?

That's like really really really bad. I have sensitive loss in other places (some recovered, some didn't) and I totally wanted to avoid that on my face - but my chin really needed to be fixed.

Now I'm freaked out about my lip. I never saw such reports of persistent sensation loss about DiMaggio (and I looked hard!) and he also told me he never had any complication like this so it all matched. I pray there's nothing hidden. I pray for more tingling. Tingling is a really good sign. Please tingle fairy, make me tingle some more on the lower lip !!

A surgeon caught lying with a CT scan is like the scenario I fear the most. It happened to me in the past. I should have sued this bastard ass off. I mean, I had xrays before, a scan after, something was obviously messed up badly in there, yet the surgeon refused to admit any wrongdoing. "it must have been this way before but we couldn't see on the xrays". I wanted to say "Are you fking blind??" I was too weak willed back then to do anything like suing.

A nerve severed and confirmed by imagery is really really really bad. Even nerve graft may or may not work depending on the scar tissue that may interfere. That's a microsurgery job and it's costly.

Shedevilcanada, I hope and pray for your recovery. I offer you my deepest sympathy. Sensation loss is one of the worst things ever.

BTW please don't let this slide. If he did say in writing that it was not severed while it was so obvious from the CT scan, that's at the minimum lying to a patient.

I dont think he willfully severed the nerve but he probably noticed it and thats probably why my jaw on the left side is not symetrical with the right side , he probably didnt want to hit the nerve on left side also. I brought him a panoramic xrays of my jaw before surgery but he didnt even looked at them. Now I have problems talking, pronouncing words and chewing.


If I can put a review here on this site,  I will post a full review of both surgeries 2014 and revision a month ago, and the post op care which was pretty much non existing and all the aggravation from day 1 when I first met him. It's sad that he has double standards for his patients. For the famous ones he probably takes good care of them but the others who are normal and live far away, its a different situation. The reviews will also be on other surgery sites.

Thank you Charlotte for your blessings and warm wishes

Quote from: charlotte15 on June 08, 2015, 10:34:16 AM
Now I'm freaked out about my lip. I saw such reports of persistent sensation loss about DiMaggio (and I looked hard!) and he also told me he never had any complication like this so it all matched. I pray there's nothing hidden. I pray for more tingling. Tingling is a really good sign. Please tingle fairy, make me tingle some more on the lower lip !!

You are 1 week after surgery, stop panicking. It's normal and expected to have temporary sensationloss in some places, much like it's expected to have swelling and bruising... it doesn't mean you have nerve damage. MdM has two neuro surgeons on his team for this exact reason.

Quote from: shedevilcanada on June 08, 2015, 11:24:47 AM
I dont think he willfully severed the nerve but he probably noticed it and thats probably why my jaw on the left side is not symetrical with the right side , he probably didnt want to hit the nerve on left side also. I brought him a panoramic xrays of my jaw before surgery but he didnt even looked at them. Now I have problems talking, pronouncing words and chewing.


If I can put a review here on this site,  I will post a full review of both surgeries 2014 and revision a month ago, and the post op care which was pretty much non existing and all the aggravation from day 1 when I first met him. It's sad that he has double standards for his patients. For the famous ones he probably takes good care of them but the others who are normal and live far away, its a different situation. The reviews will also be on other surgery sites.

Thank you Charlotte for your blessings and warm wishes

That is really unfortunate.  Is Dr. Lee trained as a craniofacial surgeon?   In Dr O's book he made some rather extensive comments about how essential it is to select an FFS surgeon who is both a well trained plastic surgeon and one who also had completed craniofacial training from a recognized training program.   Hope your longer term results improve, but nerve damage like you describe is a bit spooky.

If it is OK to ask,  why did you go back to Dr. Lee for a revision, with that kind of prior experience ?

God's speed.