Category: custom facial implants | jawline reshaping | technical strategies

A custom wraparound jawline implant is a supercharged chin implant that augments the entire jawline. As a result it shares some similarities in placement as both type of jaw implants need an anterior incision.  (the total jawline implant also needs two additional intraoral incisions to get the jaw angle parts in the proper position) This Read More…

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…

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…

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…

Background: Fractures of the lower jaw is the second most common facial fracture other than the nose. Amongst these traumatic jaw bone injuries, fractures through the jaw angles is the most frequently location along the course of the bone. They can be difficult to surgically repair due to both surgical access as well as the Read More…

The lower jaw can have a wide range of aesthetic dimensional deficiencies. The most common is the lack of horizontal projection as seen in chin shortness or in width back at the jaw angles. These jaw deficiencies can be satisfactorily treated by a variety of conventional implant augmentation methods. One of the least common deficiencies Read More…