Will Vertical Jaw Angle Implants Give Me A Chiseled Jawline?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I am seeking vertical jaw angle implants to get a result like the attached pictures.

A:Thank you for sending your pictures. Before deciding on what type of implant to use the first step is to determine what type of jaw shape change the patient is seeking and what amount of such change is acceptable. This is the role of pictures and computer imaging. In looking at your pictures I have significant concerns that with your fuller tissues any type of standard jaw angle implant is just going to get lost (not seen) and may just make the face fuller/heavier/fatter.  If the goal is a more defined and visible jawline that does not appear likely to occur with the thickness/looseness of face and neck tissues you have.

Excess soft tissues can be overcome by jaw implants but it takes a lot of implant size to push the tissues out and then the issue potentially becomes ending up with too big of a result.  With fuller faces concomitant soft tissue reductions are usually done at the same time to help the jaw augmentation result be better.

Dr. Barry Eppley

World-Renowned Plastic Surgeon