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How is Chin implant pain and recovery time compared to face or neck lift? Part of my procedure will be a chin implant. How painful is this post surgery and what other recovery requirements are there? I have read you can only have liquids but for how long? I lose weight easily.

4 Doctor Answers | Asked by gggiwmm in Spring, tx 77382
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Chin implant recovery relatively easy

Although swelling and tightness can persist for a few weeks the overall recovery form a chin implant is relatively quick and easy. 
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Visible swelling will subside within 2 weeks

The chin implant will make the chin area a little bit more swollen and painful. Most of the visual swelling will subside within two weeks after the chin implant. The face and the neck lift is surgery to tighten the muscles and excess facial skin. The chin implant is a bony augmentation, placing a synthetic implant over the bone to augment the existing chin. The first couple of days after the surgery, diet should include soft foods and liquids and then progress to a regular normal diet... more
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Chin implant should not considerably add to your recovery

The chin implant should not considerably add to your recovery.  It will add some blunt pain to the chin area, and numbness to the lip is possible.  The main things to recover from in face lift is bruising which is not predictable, and swelling which shouldn't be that bad.

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Chin Implant will not add to Facelift recovery

If planned appropriately, chin or chin/pre-jowl implants can really put the "icing on the cake" of facelift surgery. It usually does not add to the recovery time itself. For the first few days, there is commonly added pain, though primarily related to chewing and jaw motion (the pocket for the implant hugs the insertion of main chewing muscle called masseter muscle). Therefore, we recommend a soft diet for the first 4 to 5 days. If you do not want to lose weight, you may consider... more
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