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Technical Strategies – A Superior Approach for Temporal Implant Placement

Temporal implants offer a permanent and effective augmentation method for unaesthetic temporal hollowing. They are usually inserted from the side into a subfascial pocket through small vertical skin incisions in the temporal hairline. While this incisional approach usually heals quite well, its use in the male patient who shaves his head or has a close Read More…

The Design of the Forehead Widening Temporal Implant

Temporal implants have become an effective surgical option to injectable filler and fat for aesthetic temporal hollowing. Placed in a subfascial location over the temporalis muscle through an incision behind the temporal hairline, they provide permanent temporal muscle augmentation. These now standard implants have their primary effects at the lower end of the temporal zone Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Extended Temporal Implant for a More Complete Augmentation

Temporal augmentation is most commonly done by injection techniques using synthetic fillers or fat. While offering a non-surgical approach, their results are often not permanent and the temporal contour may be uneven or asymmetric. More recently developed temporal implants offer an assured volume and a smooth temporal contour result. Placed through a small incision inside Read More…

OR Snapshots – Temporal Implants Placed Through a Browlift Approach

Temporal augmentation has become a popular facial area of augmentation due to injectable fillers and fat. While these injectable methods offer a non-surgical treatment method, their volume retention and smoothness of contour is far from assured. Temporal implants offer a facial augmentation method that is both permanent and straightforward to place. It is an implant Read More…

OR Snapshots – Placement of Subfascial Temporal Implants

Augmentation of the temporal region of the face has become popularized through the use of injectable synthetic fillers and fat. While such injectable treatments can be successful, they can be plagued by unpredictability of volume retention and the need for ongoing treatments. Like it is anywhere else on the face where aesthetic bone augmentation is Read More…

Technical Strategies – Hairline Approach to Temporal Implant Placement

Temporal implants offer the only method of permanent temporal augmentation…that is also easily reversible. Placed in the subfascial plane on top of the anterior temporalis muscle, there is no risk of facial nerve injury nor visible edges of the implant.The skin incision to place them is done back behind the temporal hairline so it is Read More…

Volumetric Comparison of Temporal Implants vs Injectable Fillers

Temporal augmentation has become a more recent aesthetic procedure. It is most commonly done using a wide variety of synthetic injectable fillers as a non-surgical approach or fat injections for more of a surgical procedure. While successful at creating a temporal augmentation effect, the cost and lack of persistence of injectable fillers and the unpredictability Read More…

Technical Strategies – The Versatile Temporal Implant

Augmentation of temporal hollowing has become a popular aesthetic procedure. While synthetic fillers and fat offer simplicity, they do not create a permanent treatment solution. Temporal implants fill that need and can be placed through a relatively minor surgical procedure. The first generation standard temporal implants are of a soft flexible silicone material that is Read More…

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