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Reshaping the Round Face – Implant and Soft Tissue Reduction Strategies

For a round face, the goal is to shift from a circular, width-dominant shape to something more vertically defined and angular. With custom implants, you’re adding structure—but in round faces, soft tissue thickness is often the limiting factor, so reduction plays a bigger role than usual. Here’s how to think about the best combinations: Core Read More…

Reshaping the Round Face – Implant and Soft Tissue Reduction Strategies

For a round face, the goal is to shift from a circular, width-dominant shape to something more vertically defined and angular. With custom implants, you’re adding structure—but in round faces, soft tissue thickness is often the limiting factor, so reduction plays a bigger role than usual. Here’s how to think about the best combinations: Core Strategy for Round Read More…

Custom Facial Implants – Mechanisms of Intraoperative Misplacement

There are two factors that determine the success of custom facial implants, the implant design and its intraoperative placement. The implant design is assured, as it is seen and chosen before surgery, but placing the implant(s) exactly how it is designed is not. Such implants can end up a few millimeters off or more from Read More…

What is Aesthetic Skull Reshaping Surgery

  Every day I get inquiries from patients requesting ‘skull reshaping surgery’ without any further specifications or details of their head shape concerns, not recognizing the scope of the general term. A detailed description of what encompasses skull reshaping surgery is described. What is Aesthetic Skull Reshaping Surgery Aesthetic skull reshaping surgery—often called cranial contouring Read More…

Custom Facial Implants – Techniques in Intraoperative Placement

Some surgeons falsely allege and some patients erroneously assume that a custom facial implant just snaps into place because of its design with an underlying shape that mimics the surface anatomy of the bone on which is placed.  There is also the mistaken belief that certain implant materials (aka PEEK) are better because of this Read More…

Custom Facial Implants – Techniques in Intraoperative Placement

Some surgeons falsely allege and some patients erroneously assume that a custom facial implant just snaps into place because of its design with an underlying shape that mimics the surface anatomy of the bone on which is placed.  There is also the mistaken belief that certain implant materials (aka PEEK) are better because of this Read More…

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