Cheekbone reduction surgery can be said to have the effect of reducing the width of the face when the outline of the middle part of the face is somewhat prominent, as well as to gently improve the contour of the cheekbones protruding below the eyes.
Listening to the expressions of those who come to counseling with concerns about improving their facial contours, I also come to think of a lot of new concepts.
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People who came to consult...
"I'm worried that I'll get a wart face after cheekbone surgery."
or,
Drawing by hand in front of me,
"Oops, I'm worried that I'll end up with a comb-patterned earthenware face."
There are often people who say that.
Among them, after performing cheekbone surgery elsewhere,
It became a wart-shaped face or comb-patterned earthenware face, and there were quite a few people who came to the revision surgery consultation to improve that part.
While consulting with many of these people, I thought that it would be necessary to look back on what a 'wart face' or 'comb-patterned earthen face' is, and also, for what reason, there is a risk of becoming such a face after cheekbone surgery? I think it would be good to find out about it together.
In addition, if you have such a face shape after cheekbone surgery, we will explain whether it is possible to improve with revision surgery.
First, it is necessary to understand what kind of face shape it is by looking at the images of warts and comb-patterned earthenware.
As shown in the two images above, both "wart face" and "comb-pattern earthenware" share a common feature, which is an "inverted triangle face" shape. This facial shape is characterized by a wide middle face, including the temples, that narrows as it goes down. While this can be observed in two-dimensional images from the front, a more three-dimensional view reveals that the posterior part of the face is wide, while the face narrows as it comes forward.
In this surgical method of reducing the contour of the cheekbones, in order to preserve a three-dimensional image while reducing the width of the face when viewed from the front, the arch of the cheekbones, which widens backward, must be rotated and moved inward.
However, if the surgery is performed by cutting the body of the cheekbones, which is responsible for the contours of the front of the cheekbones, in a trapezoidal shape and fixing them, the front of the cheekbones is reduced, but the contour of the cheekbones, which widen backwards, is not improved, so the face after surgery You can often see this becoming a flatter face shape and the front cheek area drooping downward.
If you explain with a little more understandable schematic diagram, it may lead to the unfortunate case of becoming the following trapezoid (or inverted triangle) face.
The 3D simulation below shows the difference between two surgical methods for reducing the contour of the cheekbones. On the right side, the cheekbones are surgically altered by cutting the body of the cheekbones in a trapezoidal shape and fixing it in place twice. On the left side, the cheekbones are rotated, including the rear cheekbones, while maintaining the continuity of the body of the cheekbones, and then fixed in place.
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This simulation illustrates that the surgical method of cutting and fixing the body of the cheekbones in a trapezoidal shape can result in a flattened and drooping appearance of the front cheek area, while the method of rotating and maintaining the continuity of the body of the cheekbones can preserve the natural three-dimensional structure of the face. Therefore, the latter method is a more preferred surgical approach for reducing the contour of the cheekbones.