Tijuana Plastic Surgeons - Tijuana Plastic Surgery

Your face. more than any other part of your body, is what defines you. Your use it to communicate, to be recognized, and to influence other people. Yet, at its most fundamental level, your face is a composite of structural elements-chin, cheeks, brow, jaw seen in the context of your whole face. It is the relationship between these structural elements that creates the look that is uniquely yours. When one of these elements is too big, or too small, it tends to throw the face out of balance. Facial contouring, a form of plastic surgery that changes the basic structure of your face, may use carefully styled implants to create a more attractive, harmonious balance among your facial features. With facial implants, your surgeon can help you achieve, for example, a wider and stronger jaw line, higher cheekbones or a fuller face, or added length and projection to a small chin.

You are an ideal candidate for facial implants if you look for improvement, in the way your face looks and you are in a physically healthy condition.

Most candidates are younger people interested in a fundamental change in the shape and balance of their face. For older patients, facial implants may bed used in conjunction with other surgical procedures, such as a forehead lift or a facelift, to help restore a more youthful look.

Like every surgery, the face lifting includes bleeding, infection and reaction to the anesthesia. Those related with the face lifting might be of less importance, such as loose of hair. The most common complication is the hematoma (blood collection), which can vary from a huge blood accumulation to obvious collections when the facial edema persists.

One of the most important things you can do to help your surgeon create the results you expect is to clearly define what you want. Look for photos that will help you describe the precise change you would like to see.

Be honest in discussing your expectations with us, and don’t hesitate to ask any questions or express any concerns you may have. During your initial consultation, we will evaluate your health and explain how a facial implant will change your appearance.

It takes approximately 4 to 5 hours. It might be performed under local anesthesia or with general anesthesia. We will make an incision that will go from the back of the ear, preauricular, and will continue by the parts where the skin is naturally folded into the back of the other ear hiding it by the hair for the classic techniques. In other techniques like the, subperiostica, the incisions are minimal and are located only in the head, so the will be covered by hair.

In the case of the eyelid surgery the incisions are also located by the natural folds of the skin. Being imperceptibles months after the surgery.

After the surgery, patients are check out wearing a soft bandage for a week, the stitches are taken of from two to three weeks and most of the swelling will disappear around the fourth week.