Category: custom facial implants | injectable fillers

Injectable Fillers and Custom Jawline Implants

While injectable fillers were initially not intended to be a facial bone augmentation method, it is now commonly done. The development of injectable fillers that have higher viscosities with stronger soft tissue displacements effects have led to their use for chin, jawline, cheek, midface and brow bone augmentations. Many of these fillers have longer lasting Read More…

3D CT Scan Assessment Of Injectable Fillers vs Custom Jawline Implants

When injectable fillers were first introduced they were used for very specific spots areas such as the lips and nasolabial folds. But today there use has extended to every conceivable facial augmentation need or request. Facial bone augmentation by injectable fillers is now commonly done for chin, cheek and jaw augmentation. Beyond the differences with Read More…

Technical Strategies – Curved Cannula Injections for Upper Eyelid Augmentation

Injectable fillers are the most common form of facial reshaping albeit nonsurgical. The have evolved twenty years ago rom injecting nasolabial folds and lips to being used for virtually any form of facial augmentation effect. Some applications are incredibly common still (e.g., lip and cheeks) and others are becoming commonplace today. (e.g., chin, jaw angles Read More…

Did You Know? Hyaluronic Acid – Based Injectable Fillers

Injectable fillers are one of the most commonly performed non-surgical aesthetic facial procedures performed. I would suspect that at least a million ccs of injectable fillers are placed in faces every year in the U.S. Of these injectable fillers the majority are composed of what is often called hyaluronic acids. The term ‘acid’ seems incongruous Read More…

Temporal Augmentation by Intermediate Fat Pad Filler Injection

The use of injectable fillers in the treatment of temporal hollowing is common. It can be debated whether the hollowing is due to fat atrophy, muscle thinning or both. Contemporary thought is that temporal hollowing is due to fat atrophy, hence the targeting of injectable filler placement into the temporal fat pad regions. It is Read More…

Outcome Assessment of Highly Cohesive Injectable Fillers For Chin And Jawline Augmentation

Enhancing the lower third of the face through an augmentation effect helps correct congenital underdevelopment/asymmetries as well as age-related changes. While once the exclusive domain of implants, injectable fillers today offer patients an immediate chin and jawline change in a non-surgical manner. While it can be debated whether the augmentation effects are the same or Read More…

Radiesse Injectable Filler and Custom Jawline Implant Designs

Injectable fillers of various types are widely used today to create enhanced facial volumes. They can specifically be used to enhance the facial skeletal features of the brow bones, nose, cheek, chin and jawline. While such facial bone augmentation results are highly dependent on the type of filler used, the volume placed and the skill Read More…

OR Snapshots – Injector Filler Extrusion in Chin Implant Surgery

Chin augmentation can be done by a wide variety of methods from injectable fillers or fat, implants and repositioning the end of the chin bone. These augmentation options represent an increasingly level of invasiveness/scope of surgery in which patients can go up or down on these progressive treatment…although it is far more common to go Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Upper and Lower Lip Advancements for Injectable Filler Fatigue

Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most commonly performed injectable aesthetic facial procedures. While very effective and instantaneous it does require repeated injections and costs to be maintained. Some patients will eventually develop the phenomenon of filler fatigue and either stop having the injections or search for a permanent surgical alternative. The two surgical Read More…

Adaptive Bone Changes from Chin Augmentation By Injectable Fillers

While injectable fillers were initially introduced for their soft tissue augmentation effects, their use has become expanded for facial contouring which often equates to bone augmentation. One common site for injectable facial bone augmentation is the chin. Chin augmentation by injection can be a good option for some patients who seek an immediate non-surgical result Read More…