Cheek Augmentation with implants or fat transfer
Cheek Augmentation with implants or fat transfer is a procedure used to enhance the size of the cheekbones. This surgery can enhance facial contours and brings balance to the facial features. It is also used to correct asymmetries and congenital defects.
- Everything your need to know about CHEEK IMPLANT
What does cheek implant surgery do?
- It compensates the lack of volume of women's and men's cheeks..
- In some cases, it is a good idea to perform it together with a face lift, since it accentuates the rejuvenating effect.
- It makes women's cheeks look more attractive by making them more prominent and well-defined, two features that are considered characteristics of female beauty.
- It balances the relationship of volume between the cheeks and the nose. This is why this surgery is usually performed together with a rhinoplasty.
What does cheek implant surgery NOT do?
- IEven though it will make your face look more beautiful and harmonious, and it will probably also improve your self-esteem, it will not be enough to make you look perfect. We must be realistic and accept the fact, that kind of perfection does not exist.
- The surgery
Anesthesia
- Local anesthesia and complementary sedation.
Surgery length
- Between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
What does cheek implant surgery consist of?
The surgeon makes an internal pocket right in front of each cheek bone or a little below of them, and inserts the implants. According to the kind of implants used, they can be attached to the bone with screws, to the muscle with sutures or simply remain in their place by internal pressure of the pocket. There are four possible incisions; the surgeon decides which one is best according to each case:
The surgeon makes an internal pocket right in front of each cheek bone or a little below of them, and inserts the implants. According to the kind of implants used, they can be attached to the bone with screws, to the muscle with sutures or simply remain in their place by internal pressure of the pocket. There are four possible incisions; the surgeon decides which one is best according to each case:
- I* Intraoral (inside the mouth, between the upper gums and the cheeks).
- Palpebral (on the lower eyelid right below the eyelashes, like in eyelid surgeries)
- Transconjunctival (inside the lower eyelids)
- Preauricular (near the ear). This incision is made in face lift surgery, so when these two procedures are performed together only one incision is necessary.
- It is very likely that, before placing the implant in its final position, the surgeon will insert and remove it more than once so as to adapt the shape and size to the special needs of your face.
- Hospitalization
- There is no need to be hospitalized; it is done on an outpatient basis.
