Is My Ai Jaw Augmentation Imaging Realistic?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am interested in a consultation regarding a custom wrap-around jawline implant (mandibular angles, body, and chin as a single piece). My goal is to strengthen my side profile which has always been pretty soft, add width to the anterior chin for a more square front-view shape, and define the over all angles to sharpen contour. Some notes on timing and other maybe relevant factors: I did recently have some chin filler a few months ago to attempt to reach my desired result (not present in the photos, these are before), and while the change was positive, it wasn’t major – but did directionally serve as proof of concept. I am also going to attach two edited photos from Qoves to kind of show what I am going for with these implants (I realize this is not a great medium to convey information, but maybe useful to assess whether my expectations for the surgery are reasonable). I would greatly appreciate learning more about what an initial consult would look like. Thank you

A: Thank you for your inquiry and sending your pictures. The use of AI or any type of imaging is done with the purpose of determining what the patient’s goals are. Thus it is very useful even though one should never interpret the outcome as always being exactly that. By you doing your own imaging, you are telling me exactly what your goals are and that is what I need to know in any type of facial reshaping surgery, but particularly when one has to design a custom implant to try and achieve it.

Thus you have already done the first and most important step in the process which is what are your goals. Now that is established we just have to discuss what implant material do you want the jawline implant to be made of and what that entire process looks like from implant design to surgery to the complete recovery process.

Dr Barry Eppley

Plastic Surgeon