Can a Long Face Be Fixed with Plastic Surgery?

asked 1 year ago by kezerian in Fresno CA
Latest answer by Brian Maloney, MD
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Tags: forehead, female, long, options, shorten

My face is very long, I have both a large forehead and a larger chin. I would not be interested in fillers to make it wider because I feel it would just be huge then. I want to know if a chin reduction or forehead reduction would be beneficial, if yes, which will be more so? Thank for any advice! I'm also aware of the ptosis of my left eye, which I plan to fix as well.

6 answers to Can a Long Face Be Fixed with Plastic Surgery?

Can Long Face Be Fixed With Plastic Surgery?

Hi Kezerian, It depends what has you looking so long in the face. To begin with, you are very beautiful. The procedures that would decrease your forehead length and chin length are quite invasive with risks of complications and deformities. I would make sure that you are really very bothered by your appearance before risking major changes to your facial proportions. These are not minor procedures. Lowering your hairline will shorten the appearance of your... more

Michael A. Persky, MD
Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

Softening a Long Face

Proportion and balance are the foundations of beauty. A tricophytic brow lift, where the incision runs through the fine hairs of the edge of the forehead, and the scalp is advanced forward to help lower the hair line, may be helpful. This can be combined with a brow lift if one is needed. Another option for lowering the hairline is hair transplant. Follicles are harvested from the side or back and placed up front to reconstruct the hair line. Neograft technology now avoids a linear scar from... more

Brian Maloney, MD
Atlanta Facial Plastic Surgeon

Facial proportions

You are not as long in the face as you may believe. consider a tricophytic brow lift - this lowers the hairline, which will have a tremendous beneficial effect on your facial proportions. i think once your forehead is more proportionate your head will appear "normal" size due to restored proportions of upper/middle/lower face

David V. Martini, MD
Elkton Facial Plastic Surgeon

Long face and large forehead.

Jaw surgery is more invasive and traumatic. For 35 years since we invented the Irregular Trichophytic Hairline lowering procedure this is the way to achieve your goal of a lower hairline and less forehead. If I do this on wednesday you can usually return to work on monday. If the scalp is too tight we place a tissue expanded(balloon) under the scalp to stretch it first. The hairline can be lowered 1/2 to 2 inches.

Toby Mayer, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Improving facial aesthetics

The desired facial proportions are equal vertical lengths of the upper, middle and lower sections of the face. Your mid-face has a noticeably shorter vertical length than your lower and upper face and you have a high frontal hairline. You could move the frontal hairline forward but doing so will leave you with a scar just in front of the hairline. You may benefit from the removal of a horizontal wedge of bone from the chin as that would decrease lower facial vertical height.... more

Aaron Stone, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

Long Face

I routinely operate to shorten the forehead by lowering the patient's hairline.The scalp and forehead have to have a certain amount of elasticity fore this to be done as a simple one stage operation. If a great deal of reduction is desired or the scalp is tight, then a 2 stage process involving 4-8 weeks of scalp expansion can be done. This may or may not be a satisfactory solution for you. Ideally the face should be divided into almost equal horizontal l thirds and boy... more

Sheldon S. Kabaker, MD
Oakland Facial Plastic Surgeon

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