Category: custom facial implants

3D Custom Implant in the Treatment of Vertical Orbital Dystopia

The most simplest definition of vertical orbital dystopia is that the eyes do not lie on the same horizontal plane. While it could be that the abnormal eye sits too high, it is far more common that the vertical direction of deformity is that it sits lower than the opposite normal eye. This can occur Read More…

Postoperative 3D CT Scan Assessment of Custom Jawline Implant

A custom jawline implant is the most effective method to reshape the lower third of the face. By expanding the inferolateral border of the mandible from angle to angle a linear jawline can be created with varying projections of its three corners…if one has the right facial structure to do so. (not overly thick soft Read More…

Technical Strategies – Geometric Midline Split in Larger Custom Jawline Implants

A custom jawline implant is the most powerful changer of the shape of the lower face. Because it creates a volumetric expansion of the entire bony surface of the lower jaw that is responsible for its external appearance, it can create jawline changes that are not capable from any other operation. Even a sagittal split Read More…

The Importance of Material Flexibility in Custom Jawline Implants

There are two powerful jawline techniques for changing the size and shape of the lower third of the face. Orthognathic surgery is well known and has been done for many decades. In the developmentally deficient lower jaw sagittal split osteotomies, particularly if a chin augmentation is combined with it, can produce dramatic changes in the Read More…

The Evolving Techniques for Custom Facial Implant Design

Facial implants have been around as a common aesthetic facial procedure for about three decades. Over this time many different styles and sizes of facial implants have become commercially available and they do satisfy may modest to moderate aesthetic facial bone deficiencies. But not every aesthetic facial volume need can be meet with the use Read More…

Combining Custom Cheek and Jawline Implants for a Maximal Facial Reshaping Effect

Aesthetic augmentations of the face has been done for decades using standard implants for the chin and cheeks primarily. But other preformed implants also exist for the jaw angles, nasal, paranasal and tear trough areas although they are less frequently done. The widespread use of injectable fillers and patient awareness has made these less frequently Read More…

The Midface Mask Implant for Aesthetic Facial Augmentation

The most common implant method of augmentation above the jawline are cheek implants. While not quite as historic as chin implants, cheek implants have been around for decades. While they can be effective for the properly selected patient, their midfacial effects are limited to the anterior malar and submalar regions of the face with today’s Read More…

Combining Custom Temporal and Jawline Implants

Custom implant designing has been a game changer in the world of facial reshaping surgery. The ability to control the dimensions of a facial implant that typically covers a much greater surface area than standard facial implants offers an unparalleled ability to change the shape of a face. The most typical custom facial implant done Read More…

The Female Custom Jawline Implant Design

Jawline augmentation has been historically perceived, and is still done so today by many plastic surgeons, as augmentation of the chin. But the chin is just the anterior portion of the jaw and represents less than one-third of its total bony mass. Jawline augmentation really refers to either isolated jaw angle augmentation or complete augmentation Read More…

Designing a Cleft Custom Jawline Implant

The prominence of the chin, the projecting anterior point of the lower jaw, is a facial feature sought by many men. The shape of the chin, however, has other features than just an anterior prominence. It has the other dimensional features of width and vertical length as well as unique surface topography in dimples and Read More…