Cheek Implant Removal

Cheek implants can greatly improve one’s facial contour and give that youthful glow. When performed on an elderly person, not only do his or her cheeks become prominent but also stretch some of the sagging skin on the facial and neck area. It becomes a cosmetic surgery with two benefits in one single procedure. For younger people having the cheek implants procedure, they experience a dramatic change from their new look. Your new look can be permanent since cheek implants are made out of durable and lifetime lasting materials, unless removed for some reason.

There are a lot of reasons why someone wanted their cheek implants removed. One of the reasons may be because the cheek implants used is the wrong size or shape that is not giving the desired outcome of the patient’s facial contour. The implants placed on your cheeks don’t make you look more attractive. This can be easily avoided if your find yourself a really experienced cheek implant plastic surgeon with great judgment for beauty and harmonious facial contour.

Sometimes complications after the procedure are enough reasons for the removal of the cheek implants. Some of the complications that may occur include bleeding, numbness, nerve injury or facial weakness, and infection. Bleeding can be avoided by limiting your activity after the procedure as well as avoiding blood thinning medications about a month before the cheek implant procedure. Infections can be cured by antibiotics but if the infection is too severe, the only way to remedy it is by removing the implants.

Sometimes when the cheek implants are inserted through an incision inside the mouth, they might migrate downward to the mouth. This is called cheek implant extrusion and it can be easily avoided by meticulous deep tissue layer closure during the cheek implant procedure. Cheek implant shifting may also occur if the incision made for the cheek implant pocket is too large. This can also occur if you push, pull, or sleep on the cheek implants for the first month after the surgery. You must avoid doing this at all cost by using a neck pillow for sleeping during the first month.

Cheek implants can be removed and replaced with another size and style of cheek implants however there is a limit on this. Each time that cheek implant procedures are done on the same patient, the procedure gets more difficult to perform. Because of this situation, the procedure’s cost also increases because of the difficulty the plastic surgeon endures during the operation. That is why it is extremely important for the patient to make the right choice of cheek implants the first time they get the cheek implant procedure