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Two Chin Implants Gone Wrong

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Updated 7 Feb 2009
Posted 7 Feb 2009
Not Worth It
Spent: $2,500 in Paris

I didn't like my short chin (looked a bit like Paris Hilton's) and the dimple in the middle, so i had a small implant when i had my nose job but the implant moved, the surgeon fixed it back free of charge but it moved again.

Then with another surgeon i had another implant 2 years ago, one that bonds with the tissues and hard to remove, a big mistake because it moved as well and it looks awful and i think too large for my jaw.

Also i can feel it all the time on one side, i am desperate to have it removed but i had it done in Paris, i live in London, not easy to go there often, and i have not much money so i am hoping the surgeon could ask me just the hospital fees but i doubt it.

I am so scared he might say he can't remove that particular implant without butchering me.
What a nightmare!

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My Doctor: Name not provided

Always ask a million questions and explain with details what you really want, doctors can't read your mind, and don't expect at 100% your surgery to be good even though others have it bad. That surgeon should not have used a tissue bonding implant as i told him the other one moved, it was a bad decision.
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Angel3 (3 posts) 24 Nov 2009
How are you doing now? Has your sensation returned? I had a chin implant and lower facelift four weeks ago and feel numbness from my bottom lip to my incision site underneath my chin. I am worried of permanent numbness. Since you went through similar symptoms, I am curious as to how you are doing.
jerrilynn (1 post) 12 Nov 2010
I had a chin implant which improved my profile wonderfully. However - something happened in surgery because the implant made a large hard boney-like knob on one side of my face, the the jaw. Everytime I put lotion on or wash my face, I feel this hard knob. It is like a grape. I heard that perhaps the edges of the implant should be shaved smoother so a knob won't be left. I am sad because I want this fixed and cannot afford to pay for the costs.
barbara11 (1 post) 18 Apr 2011
I had an chin implant a number of years ago. The first surgeon who put it in, did so crooked. I went to a different surgeon and had it straitened out. When he did this procedure, he nicked one of the salivary glands which he explained would heal. However many years later, I find that it is filled with scar tissue, and the gland itself is atrophying. The ENT I went to and who ran a CAT scan on it, said there is nothing they can do to help it which I found very discouraging. It's gotten worse since my visit to her 2 years ago, but don't know what I can really do about it? Any suggestions as to where to turn? Thanks in advance for your help. This has became very hard to live with.
Mikey2323232 (1 post) 19 Jul 2011
I got a chin implant from a surgeon in denver that said he had done thousands of these. I look back now and realize that he was definately puffing his experience. He put it in but it was very crooked (not level), and also skewed to the left. I went back and he did another surgery to fix it... its still crooked but not skewed... He first blamed me saying I must of hit the implant... which i didn't. I actually sat up sleeping for about 2 months just to make sure it was perfect.. It has been 7 years and now trying to find another surgeon that really does specialize in chin implants.. this time I think I will also request them to screw it in place.. as I really can't think of having a problem again.

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