Will Looking At Other Patients With Custom Cheek Implant Results Be Helpful?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I’m interested in getting some custom cheek implants. I wondered if you could send through some before and after pictures of males with implants that add Malar projection with the sizes? I believe I’m looking at 5mm of projection.

A:Due to patient confidentiality I don’t pass out patient pictures. (I suspect you would not want your pictures passed around randomly either) But that issue aside other people’s results and implant dimensions have little actual correlation to someone else  based on anatomy and aesthetic preferences. What matters is what is the patient’s specific cheek augmentation preference/target is? That can only be determined by computer imaging of the patient’s pictures to determine their range of change tolerance. I don’t how you have picked the 5mm thickness number. Buit unless one has gone through the imaging exercise to develop a feel for the change the patient is seeking there is no way to know the relevance of any specific implant dimension.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon