Can a Chin Implant Make Facial Muscle Cramps Worse?

All chin implants feel tight and hard in the first few weeks. You have to realize that the skin and muscle layers have been stretched to make room for the implant and need time to feel normal – give it about 3 months.

There is a nerve which comes out of your mandble (jaw bone) which can be irritated or injured when performing chin implant surgery. This nerve provides sensation to one half of the lower lip and chin. Generally, it is relatively rare to injure the nerve permanently. More often than not, the...

Chin implants are placed deep under the tissue of the chin down against the bone. Hair removal lasers only treat the first few millimeters of the skin and thus should have no effect on the underlying chin implant. It should not matter whether the implant was placed through the inside of the...

Young skin and muscle tightens quite well. That is a good thing. Plus now a days we have plenty of options to tighten the skin in this area. Those range from energy devices such as radiofrequency or laser to liposuction and muscle tightening with surgery.  Even well placed botox and fillers can ...

Technically, removal of a chin implant is easy... assuming it is a silastic type implant. Medpor implants can be much more difficult. Recovery is very quick as well. Little of the swelling associated with the initial surgery typically happens. Patients having their chin implant removed should...

From what you are describing it seems that the implant chosen for you is too rounded and was probably inserted without adjusting its shape.Once the swelling has settled which usually takes up to 6 months, if the shape of the chin appears too wide it is possible to do a revision and reduce the ...