Category: facelift | facial feminization surgery

The Need and Timing of a Facelift In Facial Feminization Surgery

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is mainly a reductive procedure of bony structures. This is done on such facial areas as the brow bones, cheeks and jawline/chin. To do so the subperiosteal stripping of the attached soft tissues is done. Between the soft tissue release and the subsequent bone reduction, the overlying soft tissues need to Read More…

Evaluation of the Safety of Multi-Procedural Facial Feminization Surgery

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a collection of over a dozen facial procedures done in an effort to soften the face and achieve a more feminine facial shape. Most of these procedures are reductive in nature and largely reduce the skeletal support of the face into a less angular and smaller shape. While not every Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery Successfully Changes Public Perception of Gender Identification

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) has become a well recognized approach to changing the male face to a more feminine appearance. FFS is a collection of procedures of facial reshaping procedures for which each patient may receive some but not all of the surgical options available. While the procedures have been well described it is presumed Read More…

Technical Strategies – A Scarless Transoral Approach to Tracheal Reduction in Facial Feminization

Facial feminization surgery is a broad collection of facial reshaping procedures from the skull down to the neck. Most of the facial feminization procedures involve structural changes, most of which are reductive in nature. The one feminizing procedure that is not on the face is reduction of a prominent Adam’s apple or thyroid cartilage. Eliminating Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Recovery, Risk and Complications and Cost

Facial Feminization Surgery Recovery Recovery from any form of facial surgery is primarily related to how much swelling occurs and how long it takes to go away. Thus recovery is more appearance-related than it is of functional limitations. This recovery period will be highly influenced by the number of FFS procedures that are performed. While Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Lower Third Reshaping – IV. Neck

Tracheal Shave A prominent Adam’s apple or thyroid cartilage disrupts the profile of the neck and is the one sure sign of being male. It is reduced by a procedure that truly reflects how it is done…the tracheal shave. The prominent union of the two halves of the thyroid cartilage is shaved down through either Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Lower Third Reshaping – III. Jaw Reduction

Jaw reduction is a generic term for different types of lower facial reshaping procedures. Often lumped into one general category, the reality is that a variety of bone and muscle reduction procedures are available to create a lower face that appears more narrow or slimmer. Each jaw reduction procedure differs in the specific dimensional changes Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Lower Third Reshaping – II. Chin Reduction

Chin Narrowing (Desquaring the Wide Chin) A large or prominent chin is a distinct male feature and is one the most important changes to make for a more feminine lower face. In determining the type of chin reduction procedure needed it is important to determine the dimensional changes required for the desired effect. In some Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Lower Third Reshaping – I. Perioral Enhancements

Injectable Fillers Enhancing the shape and size of the upper and lower lips can be one of the most powerful gender facial changes. Though small in size their impact on gender identification is significant. A variety of surgical and non-surgical lip augmentation procedures exist. The most common form of lip augmentation done is with the Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Middle Third Reshaping – II. Cheek Augmentation

Feminine cheeks typically have more fullness in the ‘apple’ cheek area which is on the front part of the cheekbone. (malar-submalar zone) This aesthetic female cheek roundness is historic although more contemporary trends for cheek augmentation are for a line of fullness that extends back along the zygomatic arch as well for more defined and Read More…