What Procedure Will Fix Facial Asymmetry Due to Trauma?

It is very hard to give you specific advice based on your picture - it is very dark, making it hard to see you clearly. However, if there is a soft tissue deficiency, then you may benefit from fat grafting or dermal filler. If there is a bony deficit, then you may also benefit from filler or may need a customized implant. Regardless, I am sure there are procedures that can help you. Just talk to your surgeons and they should be able to help.

It depends on what type of trauma it is. Many times, the trauma can cause a cut or laceration and sometimes when it is closed the multiple layers that the cut goes through may not be closed individually. This can lead to some layers not being properly opposed and hence a lack of tissue. The correction of this can entail reclosing the area in multiple layers to bring back the tissue. If it is due to volume loss from just the pure impact, you can graft fat into the area from your abdomen. If... more

Hello Faydoi, Reconstruction of facial trauma can be a complicated & difficult process due to the complex structure of cranio-facial anatomy. A good way to think about it is that our face is like an onion with many layers - 3 main layers would be the bone / skull, muscles / fascia and skin / hair. Depending on which layers are damaged, various techniques are used to repair and reconfigure the damage. If bone is fractured (as was the case in Cassidy's auto accident) then metal / titanium... more

Facial asymmetry that is present can be addressed in multiple different reconstructive procedures including fat grafting, dermal grafting to augment an area that is depressed. Scar revisions can be performed for hypertrophic and keloid scarring. Cortisone injections and scar revision can be performed for actual poorly designed and oriented scars. Facial bones can be reset back to their normal anatomic position with titanium metal plates if needed. It is impossible to tell without full,... more