Can I get a chin implant if I'm going through chemo for colon cancer?

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Can I get a chin implant if I'm going through chemo for colon cancer

Michael P. Morrissette, DDS, FACS · Answer

It may be advised to delay the placement of a chin implant until chemotherapy is complete. Many chemotherapeutic drugs can lower the white blood count and raise the risk of infection. In addition, I would advise the placement of the implant through a skin incision which is considered more sterile and therefore diminishes the risk of infection as opposed to an intraoral incision.

Lexie Wang, MD · Answer

CAN you get one? Probably. SHOULD you get one? I bet 99% surgeons would not recommend you do so because a chin implant is a very elective procedure and the last thing you want to do is get some kind of complication to your cancer because of an elective procedure. Not to mention the fact that if you're actively undergoing chemo, you are probably immunocompromised meaning that the implant is even at higher risk of infection, your body is probably focusing on fighting cancer so it will not do a good job at healing, and you may even have weight fluctuations that might end up altering what chin size you should even get.

Can I get a chin implant if I'm going through chemo for colon cancer?

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