Can I Get My Mouth Widened After MARPE Didn’T Work?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I didn’t notice my MARPE changing the width of my mouth at all, which I’d hoped it would. I’m just curious, is there another way to slightly widen the mouth? Also, I’ve heard that you need time for your palate sutures to fuse again until you have jaw surgery. Is that true?

A: I would not expect MARPE to widen the nostrils. Mouth widening is done by a direct softy tissue Y-V corner movement. There is no correlation between any  facial suture developments at the bone level and this external soft tissue site.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon