Complication Cases of Zygomatic Reduction Surgery

Zygomatic reduction surgery, when performed properly,  

not only has a clean and safe course, but also produces results that can be clearly felt. 

 

Nevertheless, while consulting, I often come across countless stories and  

many cases of people lamenting the unfortunate results after a botched zygoma surgery,  

which leaves me with great regret. 

 

Surgery that reshapes the bone contours in the deepest part of the face  

can, if not performed accurately and properly in the initial operation,  

often lead to a path that cannot be reversed. 

 

The most important thing is to carefully and thoroughly verify everything when deciding on the initial surgery,  

and then choose the hospital. 

 

The places I would advise against surgery at are as follows.

 

1.    A hospital that performs zygomatic reduction surgery without fixation and says the surgery is finished within 20 to 30 minutes 

 

-       Even though I have been performing zygomatic reduction surgery almost every day for 10 years,  

the time invested in zygomatic reduction surgery must be  

at least 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours, carried out with careful focus,

 in order to promise consistently accurate results.

 

-       If fixation is not done in zygomatic reduction surgery, 

 the operation can be completed not in 30 minutes, but in even 10 minutes. 

  

2.    A hospital where the cost of zygomatic reduction surgery is much cheaper compared with surgery on other areas 

 

-      In fact, I have performed square jaw surgery or V-line square jaw surgery  

more often than zygomatic reduction surgery.  

However, compared with square jaw surgery,  

I believe that zygomatic reduction surgery  

requires a much higher level of technical skill and concentration. 

 

-      Of course, in most plastic surgery clinics, the surgeon's operating time partly determines  

the surgery cost, so  

if the operation is finished within 20 to 30 minutes, it is only natural that the surgery fee is low. 

 

Let us look at the cases below.

The above 3D CT images show the bone condition after undergoing zygomatic reduction surgery

after being told it was a non-fixation quick zygoma reduction surgery. 

In the area inside the yellow circles above,

you can see that part of the zygomatic bone has disappeared entirely.

If this happens,

reconstruction is almost impossible even with revision surgery.

 

 

 

In the above 3D CT image, you can see that part of the zygomatic arch is fractured into pieces and floating.

This condition can only be described as being like a complex fracture of the zygomatic bone caused by trauma.