Chin Lipo and Implant for Smooth Jawline - San Jose, CA

I just had a postop appointment with the doc and everything is going well. Still have one swelling, but the tissues are starting to conform more to the implant. Lower face, jaw and under my chin are still regaining full sensation. I’ve had a few days where a stabbing pain throbs on the left side. It comes and goes and I assume it’s the nerves coming back to life. Otherwise, I have full functionality of my face and smile. It just takes patience to see results.

I had my stitches removed yesterday. I definitely still have a lot of swelling -- you know you're not out of the woods yet when your doc sees your face and jokes "Hey! It's Amy Schumer in the flesh!" (not that Amy isn't beautiful just the way she is). But I am still looking a bit Schumer-esque (and I don't normally).

Highlights of one week post:
1. Each day I continue to look more like myself.
2. The swelling comes and goes in certain places. Doc says this is to be expected.
3. I have put a silicone scar sheet on the incision site (which is healed) -- hoping to reduce the visibility of the scar from the outset.
4. I still have stiffness in my lower face and jaw. There is an achy pain when I press on my jawline; some of it is due to the lipo, some due to the implant pressing on the nerves that are regrowing around it.
5. Numbness in my lower cheeks and under the chin.
6. My broad smile still looks forced and weird, but smaller smile looks normal.
7. I don't have full downward movement in my chin because it hurts a bit too much to push my lip/ chin down with those muscles still. But the muscles are working and I know the pain will lessen with time.
8. Still have some bruising but it's fading.

I did have that moment of "What did I do?!!" My doc has warned me that most everyone has this thought at least once because they don't see their results yet and our primitive, reptilian part of the brain just can't believe that it's a temporary state. So, yeah -- I went there yesterday, BUT!!... I did a side by side comparison of me smiling from the profile angle and it made me feel SO much better. I forgot I had taken the profile smile pics (and I usually don't ever see myself smiling from this angle, so it was a shock), but you can see how much better my chin looks now. Before, my chin would totally flatten out in the front -- even my bottom lip would flatten out and the fleshy part of my chin would just curl back toward my neck and create a double chin. Now the implant is holding that tissue up toward the front so that when I smile, the chin no longer curls under. My bottom lip looks fuller even. So happy with this angle -- just have to be patient with the rest.