5'4" 120 lbs deep plane facelift (with fat grafting and chin implant) failure resulting in uneven surfaces, pull-marks, unnatural chin ledge. Original surgeon want to lipo around mouth and add fat to cover pull-marks and dented cheek. Seems like the deep plane FL was improperly executed. Please advise.
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Thanks for your question. I tend to believe that a good compression garment really helps the outcome of the surgery. The intention of the garment should be to compress areas of lipo. I think its very important that the garment is used everyday and only removed when needed to shower for up to 8...
Hello! Unfortunately, it appears that you have some extra skin after liposuction. When combining liposuction w/ skin tightening (i.e. j-plasma etc.) you can expect up to a 60% improvement but it is not perfect. Surgically, the gold standard is to perform a tummy tuck to remove the extra skin and...
It is amazing the surprises that we as plastic surgeon can get whenever we are performing a Liposuction, in some cases we can expect to have small amounts in certain patients and we have a lot. The amount of fat can not be precisely be predicted before a procedure.