- Initial incisions
- Plication
- Skin excision
- Scar pitfalls
- Pre-jowl implant
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In the image above
left, you see two implants. The jowl implant is light
blue. The dark blue implant is a standard chin augmentation implant, which
is used to make a weak chin appear stronger. Below, you see the chin implant in position against a skull. When we are using a chin
implant, we want the chin to come forward away from the face (blue
arrow below right) to make the chin appear stronger.
The pre-jowl implant, however, is designed to augment only the triangular dent in the skin off to the side of the chin. Above right, we see that the pre-jowl implant is much thinner in the center (distance between the red lines) than the chin implant (distance between the vertical blue lines). So the pre-jowl implant will not make the chin look stronger from the profile view. The green arrow above right points out how the pre-jowl implant is built up in the region of that triangular dent. |
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Above we see the pre-jowl implant and chin
implant from on top. Again, the pre-jowl implant (at left) is narrower in the middle
than the chin implant (position of the black arrows), and the pre-jowl implant has extra thickness
off to the side (red arrow), where it will fill out the dent in front of the
jowl and help maintain a straighter appearance to the jaw line.
You might ask, if we only expect the pre-jowl implant to augment the triangular dent, why not have two small triangular pieces instead of the one large piece as pictured above? Answer: with one piece, it's much easier to place the implant in its proper position and have it stay there after surgery. |
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