Category: custom facial implants | plastic surgery case study

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Replacement of Unnatural Looking Custom PEEK Infraorbital-Malar Implants With An Improved Custom Infraorbital-Malar Implant Design

Background: The flatter midface has a long history of being treated by the LeFort I advancement bony procedure. While effective for improving projection of the upper lip, teeth and nasal base as well as improving the dental interdigitation it leaves behind the the midface structures that lie above the bone cut.This means the infraorbital rim Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transpalpebral Placement of a Custom Brow Bone Implant for Congenital Brow Bone Asymmetry

Background: Facial asymmetries are not uncommon and can affect any of the facial thirds.Such asymmetries can be more complete affecting multiple facial thirds or they can only involve one of them. The upper facial third or forehead is not spared from such congenital asymmetries although in my experience it is probably less commonly affected than Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Jawline Implant Replacement for Chin Implant and Radiesse Injectable Filler for Total Jaw Augmentation

Background: Injectable fillers are the most common form of facial augmentation due to their immediate effect and their non-surgical placement. They often are used before facial implant placement either as an initial test or unknowingly as a precursor to a yet unrealized desire for a permanent facial augmentation effect. They can be done to create Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Strong Jawline Implant Augmentation in the Normal Male Lower Jaw

Background: The definitive augmentation method of the lower face is the custom jawline implant. While chin implants were the original jaw augmentation technique and are still the most common facial implant used their effects are limited to the anterior 1/3 of the lower face and their effects best seen in the profile view. Sometimes patients Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Forehead Implant for Male Pseudo Brow Bone Protrusion Correction

Background: The forehead occupies a full third of the face in both frontal and side views. With such a large surface area there are numerous topographic features which create its shape and appearance. One major aesthetic feature of the forehead is its inclination (FI) often called the slope. As classically described it is the angle Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Conversion of a Female Broad Standard Chin Implant to a Custom Tapered Chin Implant Design

Background: It is no surprise that there may be different chin augmentation goals based on the patient’s gender. But if you look at almost every chin implant that has ever been manufactured you would assume that chin augmentation must be gender neutral. They all look fairly similar from the standpoint that most have wings or Read More…

Technocal Strategies – The Trancutaneous Approach to Jaw Angle Implant Repositioning

Jaw angle implants are a common form of aesthetic facial augmentation. They are unique from some other types of facial implants because of their need for bilateral placement as well as accessing the very remote jaw angle area intraorally. As a result jaw angle implant malposition is not rare and, given that many patients have Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Jawline Implant for Secondary Reconstruction After V Line Surgery

Background: V line surgery is the most aggressive and effective form of aesthetic jaw reduction. It is not an easy surgery to perform as the angle of the bone cuts from an intraoral approach can be difficult to make from the jaw angles coming forward to the chin in a perfectly symmetric fashion. With this Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Cheek and Jawline Implants with Cheek and Submental Lipectomies

Background: Facial reshaping surgery most commonly involves modifications of the bones albeit augmentative or reductive. Masculinizing the face is typically augmentative in nature while facial feminization focuses mainly on reduction procedures. It is for this reason that facial masculinization almost always involves implants with a few exceptions such as the sliding genioplasty for chin augmentation Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Mercedes Type Mouth Widening Procedure after Custom Facial Implants

Background: The face is a set of anatomic features that structurally create a Y configuration in the middle of the face.The paired eyes/eyebrows, the vertical shaped nose that lines between them and the horizontally oriented lips or mouth that runs below the nose. Each of these 7 structures forms a facial pattern which, while quite Read More…