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FACIAL
IMPLANTS
Facial implants is not a medical decision, but a personal one. The way you see yourself defines you and integrates you in society. Face, more than any other part of the body is the one that defines you. Your face helps you communicate and influence another persons; it is a way of recognition. Face consists of several regions, among which there is a balance which creates your own figure. When a part of your
body is bigger or smaller, than the face has an esthetic imbalance. Facial
contouring by using implants can lead to a more attractive and harmonious
equilibrate face. For example the plastic
surgeon can recountour your cheekbones, or resizes your chin. This kind of operation
is the only one, which can remodellate and recontour some unaesthetic
unequilibrated aspects of your physiognomy. Plastic surgeon can
give you medical advice, but the only one who can decide what's in
your best interest it's you. This kind of operation
has been done ever since 1950; many men and women have taken advantage
from this operation. The operation is addressed
to men and women who are unhappy with their face. When this kind of operation
is performed with older persons, some other intermediate interventions
can be associated with it: facial and forehead lifting, blefaroplasty,
wrinkle treatment. A person can ask for
this kind of operation when he or / she considers himself ready and is
able to take advantage by it. SURGICAL INTERVENTION The purpose of this
operation is that of modifying the shape and some parts of your face with
the purpose of realizing a non-esthetic equilibrium between all the facial
structures. Medical intervention for facial implants introduction is done through mouth; for this reason avoid to have infections… if you are a smoker, cease smoking until healing in order to reduce the risk for infection. CHIN IMPLANT Chin implant is done through a small incision in the oral cavity, at the lower lip, or an external incision in the lower part of the chin. The soft tissues are lifted from the chin bone; the implant is introduced in the space formed that way. The incision is closed and a compress is applied. CHEEK
IMPLANT If facial lifting
is done in the same time, then the cheek implant is introduced through
these incisions. If you do only this operation, the implant is introduced
through an incision in the mouth, at the upper lip or through an incision
through the lower lip. The soft tissues are removed off the bone and the
implant is inserted in the desired position. The operation is done
under general anesthesia because it is safer and ensures the operating
team a grater risk. The risks of the anesthesia are diminished, by administrating
general anesthesia, but they can not be completely eliminated. Present
your plastic surgeon with your medical history, in order to follow the
correct procedure. In certain situations the operation can be done under
local anesthesia. The necessary time
for a facial implant depends on several factors including the complexity
of the operation, the anatomy of the patient, the type of the anesthesia. The time for the operation
is 1 to 2 hours. Most of the cheek implants take 1 or 2 days of hospitalization, in order to keep the patient under medical surveillance POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS A few possible complications
can be: bleeding, haematoma, infection, allergy to anesthetic, injury
of the nerves that control the face. Follow your surgeon' s advice in
order to avoid complications.
A slight pain can
occur, and your face can be swollen. This introduction
has been made only for an informative purpose. Radu VOICU
M.D. PLASTIC SURGERY
DEPARTMENT Phone: 004-021-224.50.02;
004-0722.684.735 Internet: www.drvoicu.ro
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