Plastic Surgery Can Help You Achievel Balance and Rejuvenation To Your Face



Posted: Thursday, October 08, 2009

by Dave Stringham
LookingYourBest.com

If you consider your chin small, you may benefit from chin augmentation. Having a larger (or "stronger") chin can help balance one's appearance, creating equal weight in the upper, middle, and lower thirds of the face. It can offset the prominence of a large or even medium-sized nose. Enlarging the chin can also make the neck look longer and more graceful, and this can be a helpful addition to a facelift when there is blunting of the angle between lower neck and the under-chin region. Post surgery, the chin will protrude further from the face. This can make a substantial change in the appearance of some people. The hollow between the lower lip and the chin may become deeper.

There are two ways a chin augmentation can be performed. In the first way a plastic implant can be placed via an incision under the chin or one in the mouth. The other way is by creating an incision in front of the lower teeth, the bony chin can be cut free from the lower jaw and slid forward. This is a way of using the body's own tissues to produce the desired change. Either way, the operation is usually done under general anesthesia.

After the surgery, tapes are placed around the augmented chin for a few days. Mild narcotics are given for pain, usually for 3 or 4 days. If there is a wound in the mouth, you will be on a liquid diet for two days and then soft foods for a few days.

A browlift is another plastic surgery procedure that may enhance your face. In the browlift, the eyebrows are raised, mostly at the outer ends, and the muscles that make the "frown lines" between the eyebrows are weakened or removed. As the eyebrows are raised, extra space appears between the eyebrow and the upper eyelid crease. This operation usually reduces the horizontal lines across the forehead as well.

If your eyebrows are settling down on the forehead and crowding your upper eyelids, you can benefit from a forehead lift. Other signs that a forehead lift will help are if you have horizontal forehead lines or furrows between the eyebrows.

Some plastic surgeons use the endoscope, essentially a TV camera on a tube, to see under the skin, so the incisions (and therefore the scars) can be limited to several lines extending straight back from the hairline, each less than an inch long. No shaving of hair is required. The tissues are freed under the skin. By placing internal sutures through the deep tissues and securing them through small tunnels through the outer bone of the head the lift is maintained. This operation is usually done under general anesthesia.

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Dave Stringham, the President of LookingYourBest.com writes about plastic surgery in San Francisco, California and plastic surgery procedures such as botox, san francisco chin augmentation, arm lift, and thighplasty.
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