The Uncomfortable Truth About Square Jaw Surgery

One field of facial contouring surgery, square jaw surgery, began in the past as mandibular angle reduction surgery, which only removed the angular part of the lower jaw. Over time, the surgical methods and results have also evolved and improved a great deal, moving toward a more careful refinement of the overall contour of the lower jaw.

 

 

 

 

Recently, because of the packaging of various surgical methods related to widely used square jaw surgery or V-line square jaw surgery, as well as excessively commercial promotional posts, I feel that many people who are seriously considering these surgeries are being exposed to confusion and the spread of incorrect knowledge. For that reason, I would like to point out a few uncomfortable truths.

 

1. Laser Facial Contouring Surgery (Laser Square Jaw Surgery)

 

It has already been a long time since the word “laser” was attached to plastic surgery methods as a name.

 

In the past, laser was used in promotional material as if it were an innovative method for everything, starting with laser double-eyelid surgery.

Of course, lasers are also used to remove spots on the skin, make incisions in the skin, or cut soft tissue (soft tissues including the skin) simply by using light.

However, laser double-eyelid surgery lost its promotional value after a few years, and nowadays almost no one comes in for consultation about double-eyelid surgery and asks about laser double-eyelid surgery.

 

Over the past 7 years or so, the name “laser treatment” has also appeared in facial contouring surgery.

 

Of course, in dentistry, a method in which jawbone with somewhat lower density is weakened using a water droplet laser and then cut may be considered to have reached a reasonably usable range.

 

However, claiming that hard lower jawbone with high hardness is cut with a laser would be an excessively exaggerated form of advertising.

 

Of course, the person undergoing surgery will not know what is being used (whether a laser or a vibrating saw), and simply explaining or promoting it as laser surgery may make it possible to avoid a very complicated explanation process.

   

But in medical procedures, the most important thing is that they must be based on trust.

 

 

2. Quick Facial Contouring Surgery (Easy Square Jaw Surgery)

 

Refining the contours of the face in a limited field of vision (a state in which it is not clearly visible) is a very important and delicate operation.

 

If such surgery is completed in 30 minutes, one should question how the results can possibly be guaranteed.

 

Of course, in my own case as well, when refining the lower jawbone, it takes less than 10 minutes to cut off the bone at the angular part of one side of the lower jaw.

 

However, to carefully refine it so that a smoother and more beautiful facial curve can be expressed externally as 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year pass after surgery, it still takes at least about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

 

 

3. Facial Contouring Surgery with Minimal Swelling, Minimal Incision (Minimal Incision, Minimal Swelling Square Jaw Surgery)

 

The least swelling comes from not having surgery at all, and if you make only a small incision, lightly refine it, and finish, swelling can be minimized.

If surgery is performed through a small incision site, it can be said to have two problems.

First, there may be almost no swelling the day after surgery, but even after 3 months, there may be little change in the appearance of the face.

Second, because the incision is small and the surgery is performed in a narrow space, it can cause serious damage to the soft tissues surrounding the bone (blood vessels, nerves, etc.).

 

 

4. Same-Day Discharge Square Jaw Surgery Without a Drain

 

The exact term for what laypeople call a “blood hose” is a drainage tube (drain).

 

In all surgical procedures, the basic principle is to insert a drainage tube (drain) into the surgical site and observe the course for about a day.

Of course, even if a drainage tube is not placed in the surgical site, there may be no problems in most cases after surgery.

However, it is necessary for safety and to reduce swelling to rest for at least 24 hours after surgery, carefully monitor the amount through the drainage tube, and then remove it.

 

Whether to insert such a drainage tube or not is a variable matter that can also be decided according to the patient’s wishes.

However, promoting the fact that no drainage tube (blood hose) is inserted can be considered somewhat disappointing from a medical professional’s standpoint.