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Q: Dr. Eppley, am in the early stages of considering a skull reshaping implant and at this stage simply gathering information to help me make a decision further down the line. I would be extremely grateful if you could spare the time to answer a few questions regarding this procedure.  1. What is your preferred […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hi, I’m wondering what is the material of your implant? A: Custom facial implants can be made of either solid silicone, Medpor, PEEK, or titanium. It is the patient’s choice. With each material choice comes different costs, lengths of the incision and whether it can be placed as a one piece or […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m looking to get a large square chin implant. Wondering if you do custom chin implants? A: You have correctly surmised that the only way to get a really good square chin implant design is to have it custom made. The standard so called square chin implants are not well designed and […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, can clavicle lengthening be repeated twice? A: Theoretically it can…but that remains a theory since it has never been yet done. There is no question that it can technically be repeated. I would have concerns, however, that it might not heal as successfully as the first. Dr. Barry Eppley World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon

Q: Dr. Eppley, My initial V line surgery was done over six months ago. The surgery has left me in a similar place as one of your patients in the gallery. She also suffered from an over done Asian V line surgery. One of the side effects of having so much taken off is that my […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Below are screenshots from a series I did using Facetune. I was able to adjust the skull to what i’d like to potentially achieve… but I am guessing that amount of augmentation is too much? A: Thank you for sending all of your pictures and your own imaging. It is always hard […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I was wondering if fat grafting to the jawline to achieve wider jaw is a good procedure? Will the fat sag in the long term and cause jowls? A: Fat grafting would not be structurally stable as a jaw augmentation method. As you have correctly surmised it will sag and create jowls…sooner […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, A question for you. As I know he is well renowned about custom made implant. So iIneed entire midface augmentation But I also oneed ne eye moved forward a few milimetters because my right eye is set back more than the left. My question is can you help moving my eye forward and […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, In the last few days the swelling from my custom chin implant has decreased a bit and the chin has more normalized but it is still excessively vertically high because the implant is very large and I would like to reduce it above all in height with a revision, I would like […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hi! I have been looking at your work with skull implants. I have two boys ages 7 and 9, both have plagiocephaly. My younger boy had torticollis and it made his head misshapen I tried to talk to his doctor about a helmet when he was a baby but he said it […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I have some questions about clavicle lengthening, my clavicles are not so short but they have a “v” shape and this bothers me, can the clavicle lengthening surgery make my clavicles straighter? A: I believe when you say V-shaped clavicles that you are referring the pronounced  s-shaped curve that they have. Clavicle […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, In hollow wrap around testicle implants does the size of the cavity need to be customized as well so that it fits snugly? Or is there some kind of packing used at the time of surgery to fill in the gap between the natural testicle and the inner wall of the implant? […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hello I have butt implants 370 cc I want to exchange to small size and get hip and thigh implants. A: My comments to these lower body implant questions are: 1) Since the smallest buttock implant size is 230ccs, coming 140ccs from 370ccs, would probably not make much of a size difference. […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m interested in removing my current chin implant and replacing it with custom jaw implants. I would like to inquire how does this work logistically for international patients? I) After completing the virtual consultation with Dr Eppley, are patients expected to also attend the Indianapolis office again in person? Then to the Implantech […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’ve scheduled a consultation, but just wanted to get some input before.  1) Can a sliding genioplasty and custom wrap around implant be done in the same surgery?  2) I have an implant that adds 6mm of horizontal lengthening, can the custom jawline wrap add extra mms to this? Or will there […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in clavicle reduction surgery for shoulder narrowing. I’ve attached some photos for reference. Some additional possibly relevant information for my request for shoulder narrowing… my bideltoid measurement is somewhere between 18″-18.5″ and my biacromial is between 15.5″-16″. Ideally hoping to get my bideltoid closer to 17″.  A: Thank you […]

Q: Dr. Eppley,  For a long time i have been very insecure about a few aspects of my jaw. For one i have quite a short vertical jaw (or lower third of the face ) length which looks bad compared to my forehead which is much longer. At first i had considered forehead reduction but […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m looking to get my genioplasty plates removed from a procedure two years ago. However this would be my 4th procedure on my chin. For a timeline , 2 years ago I had a genioplasty with a chin implant placed at the same time. After my procedure I had hardware failure so […]

Q: Dr Eppley, I have a question, I’m male and have very wide hips and I’m very insecure about it. On some anatomy pictures I saw that the widest width of your hips is caused by the outwards sticking bone part on the top of the leg bone where the leg bones connect to the […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m interested in clavicle lengthening surgery. I have a couple of questions:  1) I’ll be traveling from Europe and so will need to fit this around my work schedule. How long would I need to stay in America for the surgery and follow up care?  2) Is it possible to add deltoid […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am writing to you because I am very sad as I had surgery on my chin but the result was not what I expected and now it is very hard. Due to a retruded chin and chin asymmetry, I entrusted myself to a maxillofacial surgeon and decided to insert a customized […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m not familiar with much of plastic surgery vocabulary but what I’d like is for my face to look years younger. From what I can see, there is volume loss, and loose skin (including double chin, there is barely any fat under the chin but still looks like double chin). I am […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hello id like to get my chin and jaw /cheek / midface implants. i want to know the cost range please let me know. A: Just based on a description alone it is impossible to say what type of facial implants you would benefit by having. (what areas, standard vs custom) Thus […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I may have asked this question in my consultation, but is osteotomy not possible for the infraobital area? I think you had stated not,even with the orthognathic surgeries I brought up, which is why I am choosing implants.  I had a few reasonable questions about the long term survival outcome of the […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Hi I’m a 28 year old Asian male. I have a concave midface, and I’m interested in what you’ve described as a midface mask implant. Not sure if that changes the nose, would rhinoplasty be needed? Also what is the recovery like? A: In answer to your midface mask implant questions: 1) […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, can a secondary “jowl tuck” lift (for incipient jows and neck skin laxity) and secondary upper bleph (for slight recurring skin laxity) be done under sedation by intramuscular (not IV) midazolam? Might IM sedation be comparable, or preferable, to IV sedation in efficacy and/or safety? Original procedures, 16 years prior, under IV […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, For hip augmentation surgery for hip dips for fuller looking hips would you be able to use a standard buttock implant small one so I could have curvier hips? Please do let me know thanks A: The question is not whether you can take a small buttock implant and place it in […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, Can you do the intramedullary instead of plates and screws for fixation of clavicle reduction osteotomies? (shoulder reduction) A:In regards to the intramedullary nail my research indicates that, while it works for fractures that have an established length, if one is trying to shorten or lengthen the clavicles it may not be […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to get botox in the forehead and eye area. Is there a risk that my custom infraorbital malar implants you inserted last summer can get infected if the injections happens around the area where the implant is? A:Those injections are above the level of the IOM implants so no they […]

Q: Dr. Eppley, i had a chin shield type of genioplasty done approximately 8 months ago. This specialized cut made my face a bit more on a feminine side (34 year old male) , the cut still left both side of my chin deficient in horizontal forward and it did not achieve my desired goals […]