Cheek implants: To secure or not secure?

Whether cheek implants are secured in placed by a screw is a matter of surgeon preference. However, the most assured way to know that a cheek implant will never move from its placed position is to secure it to the bone with a self-tapping 1.5mm screw. This takes less than a minute to do and has a very low cost.

There is no general consensus whether to screw in cheek implants to the bone. We make a precise pocket to place the implant in directly over the bone through intra-oral approach. The implants generally stay in the position where they were placed once the scar tissue capsule forms around them

I have been dong cheek implants for many years and never found it necessary to secure them with screws. Every surgeon has their own technique.