Problems associated with facial contouring

The melon face favored by Oriental people should not have prominent cheekbones, the jaw should not be too wide, and there should also be a pointed chin. This is my reception of patients summarized the basic facial profile requirements. But to what extent are the cheekbones prominent, and to what extent is the jaw wide enough to require osteotomy surgery, that is a matter of opinion. Although there are some professional standards, but each doctor has different aesthetics, different judgments, different motives, the treatment plan is very variable. 1.Do you have to operate if you have prominent cheekbones? The cheekbones themselves should be the most prominent part of the facial contour, and in the European and American aesthetics the cheekbones are an important part of the facial contour. Only a part of the zygomatic bone is overly prominent to require bone grinding and amputation, here to distinguish between the zygomatic body is prominent, or zygomatic bow is prominent resulting in facial width, the former can be simple bone grinding, the latter need to amputate the bone, fixed with titanium plate titanium nails, the operation will be very large. Of course there are cases of both, which are not rare. There is a large part of the prominent cheekbones is relatively prominent, because the temple area is not full enough caused by filling the temples can be solved, rather than grinding the cheekbones, the small face of the Oriental people who are not big enough to become even smaller. 2, the smaller the jaw angle, the better it looks? From the side, the jaw angle is the angle between the longitudinal edge and the horizontal edge, 120 degrees is the standard, from my patients, the vast majority is in line with this standard. But why do so many people want to amputate the jaw angle. There is even a straight line from the earlobe to the chin, it becomes 180 degrees, commonly known as “dog face”. This is a misunderstanding, normal people need to have a jaw angle, just can not be too small angle, not less than 120 degrees on the normal. In fact, cutting part of the jaw angle is only from the side to improve the contour, but from the front to see the effect of the surgery, this is because the side to see, the jaw is too wide part of the jaw angle, but the jaw body biting muscle part of the contour is too wide. This part of the jawbone needs to be thinned and bone grinding is performed. In some cases, this is due to a thickened bite or an enlarged buccal fat body. Or several factors are superimposed on each other, which need to be judged by the doctor and treated appropriately. To achieve the width of the jaw from the front slightly less than the width of the zygomatic bone can be. 3.Do all facial contour changes require bone surgery? If the problem is very serious, surely bone surgery is immediate. However, there are a large number of people who have prominent cheekbones and jaws that are too wide are relative, and the problem can be solved for some of them by filling in the temples, filling in the cheeks, injecting Botox to narrow the biting muscles or augmenting the chin. This requires the doctor’s correct aesthetics, sound judgment, and good communication with the patient. Instead, all of them are open surgery, which causes physical pain and financial loss to the patient, or even the surgery is overdone and produces more serious contour problems.