Facial Plastic Surgery Blog

FDA Approves Voluma–It’s newest injectable filler that is indicated to lift and volumize cheeks.

Electing to receive a cosmetic facial treatment or surgery is the beginning of your journey to becoming the new and improved version of you. This process is important for a number of reasons. Your health and happiness may be positively changed in equal measure, alongside your appearance, if you choose a skilled plastic surgeon. This is often the case with rhinoplasty surgery that is performed alongside a septoplasty to improve the look of the nose as well as its airway function. Another example of this doubly positive experience is blepharoplasty surgery, which creates a wider, more awake eye appearance and often also removes excess skin that interferes with vision. There is also the benefit of improved confidence and self-esteem which often results from a positive facial plastic surgery experience.

A person may be genetically predisposed to a certain facial shape, and the cheekbones may not be as prominent a structure as one prefers. Others may have perfectly normal or even attractive cheeks, though over time the malar fat pads can begin to slip from their high location to a less desirable, lower position on the face. Trauma or disease can deform the structure of the cheek, and may affect tissues as deep as the bone. Each of these issues can be addressed by Dr. Batniji

Fat transfer goes by many names: Autologus Fat Transfer, Facial Fat Injections, Fat Grafting and more. Fat can be injected anywhere in the face to restore or increase volume or to create more contour around various structures. The patient’s own fat source is utilized and it can be harvested through a small cannula during a minor liposuction procedure. The extra fat is often found around the waist, thighs or buttocks.

This surgery is commonly referred to as chin implant surgery, mentoplasty, genioplasty, and chin augmentation These terms generally refer to procedures which reshape the chin, often with the use of implants.