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Permanent Facial Fillers/Implants
Solid Silicone Implants in
contrast to liquid silicone fillers discussed above,
solid silicone implants have had an excellent track
record with minimal adverse reactions or side effects.
These medical grade pieces of silicone are contoured to
enhance the chin, cheeks and nose. When placed in a
pocket under the soft tissue, against the bones of the
face, these implants give excellent results.
Porous Polyethylene Implants (Porex)
are used in a similar fashion to silicone, but have
some unique qualities. Because of its porous structure,
tissue grows into the implant making it less mobile,
thats good most of the time. However if you decide to
have the implant removed it makes it next to impossible
to remove it. For most patients deciding on a particular
implant, I always advise a silicone implant.
Why would someone choose to have
one of these implants?
In contrast to the temporary
fillers described above, enhancement of the chin, cheek
or nose is designed to alter a persons appearance as
opposed to rejuvenate it.
Chin augmentation is used to
correct a weak or small chin (described as when the tip
of your chin projects forward less than base of your
nose on side view). As a result of the enlargement of
the chin, several key relationships on the face change.
The size of the nose will appear smaller. If you are one
of the many people wthl a weak chin, a chin enlargement
will make the nose appear smaller. Another benefit is
for those with a poorly defined neck this is when the
angle between your neck and lower jaw is less than
ninety degrees. As the chin is enhanced the neck will
appear better defined. It is for these reasons that chin
implants are a very popular procedure.
Cheek augmentation is used
to alter the face in several ways. First, for patients
with long, narrow, rectangular faces, cheek implants can
be used to add width to the middle part of the face,
thereby making the face appear more oval. For patients
with flat cheeks, just below the eyes , cheek implants
can be added to create a more cherubic,fuller, three
dimensional face.
Nose implants can be used to
reconstruct noses that are depressed because of trauma
or previous surgery.Some ethnic noses have a deficiency
of projection of the middle of the nose or at the base
of the nose. Nasal implants can be used to build up a
nose with some loss of tissue at its base.. |
