Category: custom facial implants | plastic surgery case study

Background: Custom facial implants provide the most substantial amount of facial augmentation due to their often larger bony surface areas that are covered. This combined with the ability to create one’s desired dimension and shape of the implant illustrate why this implant approach is far superior for many patient’s over the use of standard facial Read More…

Background: The traditional use of facial implants is based on the most common locations of aesthetic bony augmentation. This constitutes the design of standard implant shapes, most of which provide expansion of existing flat or convex bone contours. Few, if any, standard facial implants provide augmentation to an existing concave bone surface. This is because Read More…

Background: The forward projection of the midface is a function of facial skeletal development, genetics and one’s ethnicity. Functionally what matters is how the teeth come together and whether there is enough dental overjet for adequate mastication. But short of the alveolus the rest of the midface skeletal development primary affects facial appearance short of Read More…