Category: facial implants

Saline Injection Trials for Facial Implants

Facial augmentation can be done by either temporary injectable fillers into the soft tissues or permanent implants placed down on the bone. Such materials causing a change in the external shape of the face in the area treated but its exact change can not be precisely predicted. While computer imaging can try to create the Read More…

Case Study: Female Jawline Implant Augmentation

Background: An underdeveloped jaw or mandible has been historically treated by chin and jaw angle implants. A chin implant enhances the front part of the jaw while jaw angle implants augment the posterior part of the jaw. While these types of facial implants are tremendously effective at augmenting the two obvious prominences of the jaw, Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom – Choosing Breast and Facial Implant Size

Aesthetic augmentation using implants is an important part of many cosmetic plastic surgery procedures. Whether it is the breast or different areas of the face, implants are used to make these areas bigger. While there are numerous factors that go into selecting the right implant for the need, the consideration of implant size is Read More…

Case Study: Implant Augmentation of Lower Eyelid Hollows/Tear Troughs

Background: The shape of the eyes is determined by many anatomic factors including the amount of fat under the eyelid skin. One undesired aesthetic look of the eyes is a deep depression underneath it. Known as lower eyelid hollows, this is when the lower eyelid skin indents beneath the lashline and lower lid margin. This Read More…

Skeletal Augmentation of the Aging Face

Aging of the face has been historically perceived as being a soft tissue problem. This has led to how the vast majority of anti-aging facial surgery has been done, employing lifting and redraping of the soft tissues back up from whence they came. There is a reason the term ‘facelift’ has persevered for nearly Read More…

The Role of Custom Facial Implants in Aesthetic Facial Surgery

Implants provide a wide array of options for facial augmentation. While initially only a chin implant was available forty years ago, today there are over fifty different styles and shapes that are available in more than one material composition. From the chin to the forehead, the options for bony enhancement now cover such obscure areas Read More…

Injectable Fillers vs Synthetic Implants In Facial Sculpting

Injectable fillers have come a long way since the approval of the first non-collagen based product in 2002. While once conceived as only a way to make lips bigger and nasolabial folds less deep, injectable fillers have evolved into an aesthetic technology that has a wide number of facial uses. Aiding the expanded uses has Read More…

The Psychological Aspects of Facial Structural Surgery

There are many reasons that patients request surgical changes to their face. With over twenty different facial regions that can be altered, there are seemingly endless options and combinations. But when you break it down, there are two main reasons for making cosmetic changes to the face. I divide these into either facial anti-aging surgery Read More…

Aesthetic Principles Of Facial Implant Augmentation

Implants have been an important part of aesthetic facial surgery for over fifty years. Starting originally as just small implants for chin augmentation, they have evolved into a large line of bone-based implant shapes and sizes. They are commercially available today for just about every conceivable area of facial bone augmentation from the skull down Read More…

Semi-Custom Facial Implants From 3-D Models

The use of implants makes it possible for many cosmetic facial procedures to be done. The mere existence of some of these implants has created new possibilities for facial augmentation. A wide variety of preformed implants of differing materials are available which allows the plastic surgeon to enhance structures as diverse as the temporal Read More…