Do Custom Facial Implants Need To Be Replaced As We Age?
Q: Dr. Eppley, Facial customized implants: your workmanship in this area, I believe, is unmatched. However, these implants are intended to be for life. But faces change – our face grows thinner and saggier with age. How do these facial implants age with the patient? It seems the implants do not and, at some point, the patient needs to return to the plastic surgery office to “tweak” their face to match the implants or get the implants removed altogether. Is this true?
A:Custom facial implants are bone based with materials that do not change shape or degrade which means they themselves do not age. It is true that the overlying sogft tissuesmof the face can age on top of them but the reality is patients that are so augmented age much better than those who are not because of the improved bone support. Any secondary surgery that is needed is related more to the management of any aging or sagging soft tissues not to adjust the implants themselves. Thus the supposition the patients need to have their implants adjusted or remove secondarily due to aging is fallacious. The aging of the face is heavily affected by the bone support that lies underneath it. Those who have better bone structure age much better than those who don’t all other factors being equal.
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