Category: custom facial implants | plastic surgery case study

Background: The features that make for a strong or masculine face are always skeletal in nature. The convex contours of the face, the infraorbital-malar and the jawline, provide the silhouette of a defined and more angular face. The convex contours, the so called trampoline area that lies between these two contour lines, helps add to Read More…

Background: Changing the shape of the lower face is most effectively done by skeletal augmentation. While injectable filers and fat has a valuable role to play in enhancing facial volumes, they are not effective ‘perimeter’ augmentation methods. They are too soft to create a sharp line of demarcation which is what is needed in jawline Read More…

Background: Brow bone injuries are an uncommon type of facial fracture. They are typically associated with high impact injuries to the forehead. The thin bones overlying the frontal sinus are typically shattered over most of the underlying air cavities. Inward displacement occurs and an external contour deformity results which is particularly obvious in men due Read More…

Background: The value of jaw angle implants has come into more common use as more complete jawline augmentation effects are sought today from both men and women. Unlike the more well known chin implant, jaw angle implants pose different challenges in both implant style and size selection as well as surgical placement. One could argue Read More…

Background: The shape of faces is influenced by the genetics of one’s ethnicity. This is well known and seen in the recognized major ethnicities around the world. In the Asian face, for example, the proclivity is for more width then projection in the entire craniofacial skeleton. This is evidenced in the tremendous popularity of the Read More…

Background: The well known sagittal split ramus osteotomy of the mandible provides a change in the position of the tooth-bearing portion of the lower jaw. It can move the lower jaw forward or back in the sagittal direction. It is not infrequently done in conjunction with a sliding genioplasty, another sagittal type osteotomy that is Read More…

Background: The term ‘jaw augmentation’ is a general term that does not connote exactly what type or amount of lower third facial change is being done. A total change or augmentation of the lower jaw is termed ‘jawline augmentation’, indicating that the augmentation involves the entire jawline from angle to angle and crosses the chin Read More…