Cheeks Implant Impede my Natural Cheeks - California

Thanks for the update. I'm really sorry to hear what an ordeal this has been for you. Is recovery getting better, at least?

You mentioned a photo but I don't see it. If you're having trouble uploading photos, please email them to me at sharon [at] realself.com and I'll post them for you. Thanks. :)

I am really sorry to say this. But it seems that your surgeon has very poor aesthetic judgement perhaps from lack of experience.
The reason I say this is because there are only a handful of people who can get an improvement with the large terino malar shells from implantech.
Most people are best of with mediums.
With cheeks like you had, XXL malars are too large. Your surgeon should have never used such large implants in the first place which would have saved you all the suffering the past year.
Hope your revision goes well.
Take care , wish you best of luck.

I am a very healthy vibrant 60 year old who had no cheeks naturally and so I decided to have cheek implants (incisions through the mouth) it has been 6 days and it has been really tough...lots of bruising, eyes almost completely shut, lots of swelling and lots of discomfort/pain due to the fact that the doctor intitially put in one set during the operaton and and then decided to go larger, so he then put in a medium size - so perhaps that is why my outcome after the surgery was more traumatic. I wished that I had not undertaken this especially after hearing that I will look like chipmunk still for at least 3 months!! I am icing face every day several times, and doing fresh fruit smoothies, home made vegetable healing soups, gargling with MMS - all in the hopes of increasing my immune system and then doing healing meditations...I hope to speed up my recovery by doing this! everyone I will let you know how it goes......chipmunk

It has been 3 weeks and I have gone through hell! For me it has been one of the worst experiences of my life! A lot of pain and suffering and mostly the worrying about getting an infection. The doctor made the incisions through the mouth on the right side too close to my teeth so I could not evrn brush my teeth on that side ....so I did get an infection. But I am a fighter and I decided I did not want to go through surgery every again (worse than my full face lift in my case) So I got on the internet and began to look up alternative methods and discovered Jim Humble's MMS which is a solution that turns into oxygen in your system and kills all pathogens bacteria and has been know to heal cancer Malaria and even HIV ,,of course the big pharmaceutical companies do not want you to know about it here in this cuntry because it only cost about $11.00 for one years supply but it knocked down my infection and is slowly working it out of my system. Check it out on youtube if you want ...How to use Miracle Mineral Suplement - Jim Humble and you will get the story on this and all of the work they are doing in Africa and Mexico....Any way this is a long drawn out situation and I know that I would not have undertaken it if I had known what I was going to go through.....I feel at this stage that I am Okay to go out into public with sunglasses on but otherwise i am still too swollen.... chipmunk

In my last post I mentioned that I was 3 weeks out from my cheek implant operation...and actually it has been 4 weeks....I did want ro also mention that when I had my operation...the doctor put in one pair and decided that they were too small so he took those out ansd then put in a larger pair....I was awake and I felt that he was being too rough with my face.....after the surgery my face looked so bad that I swear everyone was shocked..I had two black eyes and they were almost completely shut by the 2nd day my mouth was black and blue all the way down to my neck and my lips were actually black. The doctor told me that he found out theat I had two holes in my cheeks so he put in something that he uses for rhinoplasty there so that nothing from my sinuses could leek out ....I told him later that I had been in an abusive relationship a while back - so possibly that is why I had those holes there - (from being hit in the face by my ex-boyfriend). Doctor conferred with that. Any way I am still fighting off what seems to be a small infection on the right side all though it appears that rthe swelling is going down very slowly on that side de to what I mentioned up above inb my last posting about using MMS to kill off the bacteria and infection...I am also a healer and every day I use my healing techniques and believe this visualization is also what is saving me from going through that horrendous operation.......I will post more as I continue with my healing....chipmunk

Are you happy with your cheek implants now?

Can you send me the pics ?