I’m considering doing fat removal (face lipo and buccal fat removal) and bone reduction (zygoma and jaw) in 2 separate surgeries. Do you have a recommendation on which I should do first? Would it affect the result or would it not matter which order I do them?
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If you are going for the pics on the right, you need to augment the angles. That will bring your jaw width better in line with your cheek width (bigonial width: bizygomatic width). Your jawline definition is good but you have rounding at the angle of the jaw and augmentation would sharpen that...
Your chin is asymmetric as well, so I would correct that with a genioplasty and then contour the jawline on both sides to balance out the entire jawline. You can’t really contour the chin alone because the soft tissue won’t adapt when you reduce by contouring. You have an asymmetry that beg...
V-line surgery is a mandible surgery targeted to contour and slim the jaw. It targets the angle of the mandible, the jaw, and the chin. The objective is to give you a more delicate and narrow mandibular line. The surgery consists of mandible osteotomy of the bone.