Can A Non-Model Face Be Changed Into A Model Face?

Q: Dr. Eppley, A few questions: 1. In your experience, is it very possible, by means of the various procedures you offer, to go from a non-model to a model-look, as defined by the actual beauty-standards of today? If so, what procedures are often required for this? 2. To achieve the Hunter eye look, one of the essentials is upper eyelid hooding. In your experience, is an infraBROW-implant better than fat grafting in the area? Can both be combined? Is one usually enough? 3. Can the fat harvested through say perioral liposuction be used as an injection in the upper eyelid or nasolabial folds in the same surgery? Thank you.

A:In answer to your questions:

1) What you are referring to when asking about going for a non-model to a model look is whether you can take an average looking male and make them look like a male model. In general, except for the rarest of circumstances, this is not an achievable outcome.

2) to achieve upper eyelid putting the most effective approach for most patients is going to be fat grafting. Whether it is best to do a combined brow bone in implant with the fat grafting must be determined on an individual patient basis.

3) the amount of fat that is obtained from perioral light perception is never going to be enough to do an adequate amount of upper eyelid fat grafting. To do upper eyelid fat grafting, particularly worth combined with nasolabial fold grafting requires a separate harvest site as at least 15 to 20 mL of fat need to be harvested.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon