Plastic Surgery – What Do Facial Fillers Actually Do?
Cheek bones like Angelina are considered beautiful. I saw a case of face lift plastic surgery in Pittsburgh.
Your face may be giving away your age, and it could be nothing to do with wrinkles, drooping skin or droopy eyelids. Interest for Plastic surgery in Pittsburgh has increased in the recent times. An report published in Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryA� (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) discovered that as we age the lower jaw expands and could give an older appearance.
This report showed that the form of the lower jaw plays an valuable role in the perception of youth and can be a tell-tale sign of someone’s age. Round and small jawlines are believed to give a younger look.
The authors studied radiographic images of 16 subjects (eight men and eight women) taken at youth (mean age 16 years old) and maturity (mean age 56 years old). That report indicated that the lower jaw grew squared shaped with age.
A face-lift that can pad some soft tissue over the cheek bones can give an illusion of smaller low jaw bone giving a younger look.
Stats show more than 100,000 face lift surgeries are performed per year.
Not only are cheeks key to our face structure- they have become important to the American concept of beauty. Not only does rejuvenating or returning volume to this fat compartment make the cheek more youthful, it also improves mass loss below the eyes, and helps eliminate wrinkle lines around the nose and mouth and gives more curl to the upper lip – fundamentally restoring a youthful appearance to the overall face. Adding bulk rather than lifting is not a revolutionary idea in plastic surgery. Restoring bulk to deep cheek fat will affect other areas of the face helping better treat facial aging.
In a cadaver survey, dye was injected to study the areas of the cheek compartment to better know the structure of the face to be modified. Latex injected in the different compartments helped discover the beneath areas of the face- the muscles, bones and fatty tissue. That work identified 3 extra compartments.
Mass loss to the deeper cheek fat gives hollowing to the face. It further noted that bulk loss of the deeper cheek fat compartment could be the determining factor in much of what a person observes as aging in the midface. When volume was restored deep within the cheek, either by using fat, tissue fillers or an implant, improvement in the hollowing of the face became apparent rapidly. Finally, when the injection was done correctly into the fat compartment, a smaller volume of fat or filler was required, the report noted.
The study authors concluded that many other compartments of fat remain to be identified in the face and human body. But the finding that adding bulk to particular facial compartments results in substantially specific, predictable and prompt results, brings plastic surgeons closer to fighting face aging in an algorithmic or step-by-step way.
According to ASPS statistics, almost 8,000 cheek implants were performed in 2007. In addition, around 47,000 fat injections and 1.1 million injections with hyaluronic acid fillers were performed last year.
Cheek implants are intended to enhance cheek contours. Facial asymmetry and low cheek bones could be good candidates for face cosmetic surgery. mostly the procedure is done on an outpatient basis under local or general anesthesia. An incision is regularly made under the upper lip and the implant located over the bone.
In addition to surgical procedures, non-surgical plastic procedures can also be conducted. Cosmetic dermal fillers include collagen, hyaluronic acid, fat and other substances. Face injectable fillers add mass to areas and regions thus giving a satisfactory desired contour.
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