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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Temporal Implants for a Head Widening Effect to Complement Prior Midface and Lower Facial Augmentations

Background: The face is well known to be divided into aesthetic thirds. This aesthetic concept is important in both frontal and side views but with different dimensional effects. A lesser appreciated proportional measurement is that of facial fifths in the frontal view which relates to various transverse and vertical relationships. From this perspective the outer Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Temporal Implants Replacement of Irregular Bone Cement Temporal Augmentation

Background: Aesthetic augmentation of temporal hollowing, like most forms of facial augmentation, is most commonly done using injectable fillers and fat. This is certainly appropriate given that temporal hollowing is a soft tissue deformity and not as a result of a bone defect or deficiency. While different forms of such injectates exists and their advantages Read More…

OR Snapshots – Anterior and Posterior Temporal Implants for a Total Head Widening Effect

Head width refers to the bitemporal diameter above the ears at the side of the head. Technically this is posterior temporal width. This is different than anterior temporal width which refers to the correction of a hollowing or a concave shape. The relevance of head width has come more into play these days as more Read More…

Technical Strategies – Placement of Extended Temporal Implants

Temporal implants have come into usage to create a permanent augmentation effect of the muscle to the side of the eye. Some temporal augmentation patients have been through injectable fillers and fat injections first while others opt right for a permanent surgical effect with implants. These soft and very flexible implants are designed to replicate Read More…

Technical Strategies – Vertical Orientation of Standard Temporal Implants

The original temporal implant, now known as style 1, was designed to treat the temporal hollowing that is located to the side of the eye. This ‘orbital’ temporal area is always the deepest part of any temporal concavity and is the most common location for aesthetic temporal hollowing. In looking at the shape of the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Small Incisional Access in Extended Temporal Implant Placements

The permanent treatment for temporal hollowing is a solid soft muscle implant that lies under the temporalis fascia. Such temporal implants currently exist in two styles based on the zone of temporal augmentation needed. The orbital temporal implant (style 1) fills in the typical location of temporal hollowing done at the level lateral to that Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Total Forehead Reshaping

Background: The forehead occupies one-third of the face’s surface area. It also has a lot of animation effects from changes in eyebrow position and the creation of various horizontal and vertical wrinkle lines. But short of motion the shape of the forehead and the surrounding hair locations also impact the impression of one’s facial appearance. Read More…

OR Snapshots – Subfascial Placement of Temporal Implants

The one permanent and often most effective treatment for temporal hollowing is an implant approach. Temporal implants offer a smooth and volume-assured method for building out the anterior temporal aesthetic zone next to the eye. Of all the facial implants, it is the only one that augments muscle, not bone, and is very straightforward to Read More…

Technical Strategies – The Shim Technique for Increasing Temporal Implant Augmentation Effect

Like all facial implants, temporal implants comes in a number of standard sizes and styles. Standard and extended implants exist to cover either the anterior lower temporal (zone 1) or the both anterior lower and upper temporal areas. (zone 1 and 2 or extended style) Within these two styles there are also various thicknesses (sizes) Read More…

Technical Strategies – Small Incisional Access for Male Temporal Implant Placements

Injectable fillers, fat and implants are all options for the treatment of temporal hollowing. But the one permanent and assured smooth treatment is that of temporal implants because of their shape and non-resorbable material composition. But temporal implants do require an incision to be placed over the main body of the temporalis muscle underneath the Read More…