Jaw And CheekBone Prosthesis

Face prosthesis and the prosthesis used to magnify the face bones. The aim is to magnify and make small jaw or insufficient cheekbones obvious. If they are planned well those prosthesis give good results that you cannot even guess. All the faces whose jaw and cheekbones are insufficient can benefit from this prosthesis. But if it is used in a wrong way, it is possible to have results which are far from being natural and aesthetical.

COMPLICATIONS AND PROBLEMS THAT MAY OCCUR
A serious bleeding is not expected in this operation but sometimes small hematoms can be seen around the prosthesis though and that hematom may need to be taken and this is a 5 minutes process.
In the surgeries which this kind of outsider materials used what is afraid of is the infection. The only remedy to treat the infection around or inside the outsider material may be to remove the prosthesis. The risk is higher when the prosthesis is put through mouth. In the jaw prosthesis there may be loss of sense. There is one each sense nerves in two sides of below the lips. If the surgery is performed through mouth it is needed to pass very close to those nerves and put the prosthesis then. In spite of the rupture of this nerve is a very small risk, even to touch this nerve cause loss of sense for a while. But do not get confused in loss of sense and loss of act. This damage of nerve may only cause numbness. This numbness is the same with the lower lip numbness when you are injected in the lower jaw to pull out a tooth. In the cuts done below the chin there is a risk but it is a less risk.
But after this surgery you may have a few aesthetic problems. Especially the prosthesis that is not put with indication, may indicate the face worse than it is even really bad. You may complain about the asymmetry even if you are satisfied with the shape. However, remember that everything is repairable and with the worst possibility you can remove the prosthesis and take your old face shape back.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Would I look like transsexual if prosthesis is put to my cheekbones?
I put this question in the excuse that it is asked so much. The answer might be yes. If the reason to put the prosthesis is wrong, namely if it is put in a round face just to lift the cheek lowness, it might seem like that. This prosthesis is appropriate just for the faces that lacks of cheekbones. If the problem is the pendency in the cheeks, the process for this aim should be implemented.

Does the jaw prosthesis handicaps to chew?
No it does not. This prosthesis just makes an aesthetical difference because it is put outer side of the jaw.

Just fat or fat tissue cocktail may substitute this prosthesis?
If a little change is desired, yes it does. But a medium or high level magnification is desired a soft stuffing material like fat may not be sufficient. Only a material which is hard like bone can appear like bone. Even, if fat or fat tissue cocktail is injected excessively, it may cause to have soft jaws or cheekbones which are hard to fix.

TIPS
If your jaw is too small ignore people who say ‘it fits you, it shows you cute’ and get your chin magnified right away. It is one of the few surgeries that I can say ‘make it done right now and you are not going to regret it’.
If you are going to make it put the cheekbones prosthesis, make sure that it is done with the right reason namely with indication. Remember that the drooped cheeks and small bones are totally diverse things.

WHAT IS EXPECTED BEFORE AND AFTER THE SURGERY?
This is a small-medium level surgery. It is not painful surgery either. You definitely need to faint for the cheekbones surgery, but the jaw prosthesis surgery can be performed by local anesthesia. I recommend you to undergo the surgery in a hospital operating room even silicon chin tip prosthesis can be present in the consulting room medium.
There will be tumescence in the surgical areas after the surgery. This tumescence may reveal the prosthesis 30% more than it is for a month. Prepare for this. It might take months to see the real results. For the first days you may have a little ache in jaw acts. But usually you can turn back in the daily life after a few days and do sports in a few weeks.
The inner mouth sutures will melt by itself. The thing that is asked from you is to keep inside of your mouth very clean and to gurgle often.

THE REPORT OF THE SURGERY

Anesthesia: Local or general.
Where should the surgery be performed: In a hospital operating room.
The duration of the surgery: It is totally dependant on the number and type of the prosthesis that is put.
The duration of hospital stay: Can be dismissed at the same day.
The ache and pain after the surgery: You can have a little ache for the first days. Painkillers taken by mouth are usually sufficient.
Tumescence and lividness: Between 3-7 days.
Dressing for a wound: None
Sutures: The inner mouth sutures melts by itself and the sutures under the chin can be removed at the 5th day.
When can be back at work: 3-7 days
Sports: After 2 weeks long joggings can be fulfilled but it is needed to wait 5 weeks for the competitive and body-to-body sports like basketball and box.
Last shape: The majority of the tumescence usually goes off in the first week. But the last shape comes up at the 6th month.