Disastrous Surgery - Medpor implants can not be removed

I think the infraorbital look good on you. Not sure what your original request was in first place. Realize that lateral malar implants would probably be like the worst thing for a female face; they are best on males and you would end up hating them. Infraorbital complements the skeletal deficiency and you won't have to always go back for under-eye filler. Yes, there are a lot of screws. The dentist will think you are an ex-soldier or something. I would just leave the infraorbital for life and have the malars removed, paranasal as well, get the cheek lift and be done with it.

Out of curiousity, why do you say lateral malars are best suited for males? I thought the ideal look for men is more of a narrow face and lateral implants would make the face wider

Thanks Angie!

Just from what I've seen and read. Women need submalar to get more volume, while submalars on men are feminizing.

It depends also on the narrowness of the implant as well. a broader implant is needed for a female face. I asked for anterior fullness, NOT lateral fullness, so my story is like a mirror image of Chloe44's. Dr. Yaremchuk put these narrow lateral implants on my face, after making my face all lopsided by stripping all the fat and creating a bulge along my right jawline. I looked like a cross between my elderly mother and one of my brothers with a squared off jaw, sagging, jowling and these thin projections at the side of my face like Cruella de Ville.

Understood.....ouch! Had the exact same experience, expecting to get more anterior but got lateral. I lived with them for awhile but eventually got them out. And am male so it actually just made me look thinner and more aged. Unfortunately with implants there's no way to try them on before... Probably best to find a PS who uses morphing software. And chin implants i have learned the hard way that they square off more than add anterior projection. Seems like the button modelcould be used more, esp for women. I had those thin side projections and evntlly had them removed.

Yes. I have facial pain. Some days it's bad and some days I don't notice anything. I don't think it's from the screws though. I have read that your body creates connective tissue that surrounds the implants and sometimes that tissue contracts causing pain. I think that is where the pain comes from.

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Off the shelf(ready made) chin implants,malar implants or jaw angle implants may not fit a person's face properly and affect facial movements?However, perhaps custom made chn implants,malar implants or jaw angle implants may fit a person's face better and not be so bad for facial movements?

I was on some website where it was talking about how Brad Pitt has a negative under eye vector. If I were a man, I'd much rather look like Brad Pitt with sharply defined features that move normally than to come out looking like Alicia Douvall (who coincidently is rumored to have also been a patient of Dr. Yaremchuk's). I couldn't smile normally either, but I would have just left the cheek implants in place if Dr. Yaremchuk hadn't also torn out all the fat from my face, damaging my nerves and making me look like skeletor.

From your pictures, it looks like sorta the same thing as me, where you had fine features, which were coarsened/worsened.

Was it filler in the temple area, or was it implant? Or was it perhaps one of those permanent fillers? If it was filler, do you know what kind (around the temples I mean.) Or was it all diffferent implants? Why did he do as he liked and put additional implants or filler in -- I thought a person selects what they want done and that is it? Since it would then cost more to put more implant or filler in, I mean -- why would he have done that? Sorry to ask so many questions, and I am truly hopeful that something can be done for you. You are still pretty I think, but I can understand how frustrating this must be.

Hi, Nadia. I can't speak for Chloe, but in my case, I think he just didn't care enough to actually listen to me. During the consult, I showed him a steroid induced depression on the back side of my arm, but then I woke up with fat injected into the middle of one of my armpits (pics are included under my review). I think he has a financial stake in some medpor-like company, too, so maybe he gets them gratis or at reduced cost. After getting my op report, I discovered he recycled a nasal implant onto my R. mandible body, which is how I ended up with permanent nerve damage and a joker smile. He told me during the post op that he took out "a little fat" and I didn't even realize how terrible that was until around a week out when my face started resembling my 60+ year old mother. I was VERY reluctant to proceed with surgery when I showed up for the consult, but because the surgery was prepaid and scheduled for the next day, he even concealed that he'd be cutting my eyes. I guarantee I wouldn't have proceeded because my eyes were one of my best features, previously. Now they look like s*#t and are hooded with under eye bulges. He's not a good person. And it seems like he's done similar things to many, many people. There's even a different plastic surgeon that's known to repair all the botched Dr. Yaremchuk patients. The messed up thing with Chloe is that she was told the implants were removed and spent a small fortune on removal, but then you look at the x-ray and clearly there's been some lapse in communication between what the doctor is saying and what's acutally being done. I hope all goes well with you and whatever it is you're searching for...

I had cheek implants at the same time as my rhinoplasty. They turned out great. Subtle, but very good improvement. People would comment that they never noticed how pretty my bone structure was and chalked it up to the rhinoplasty reducing the focus from my larger nose that had been reduced. I still looked like me, but just a better version. People would look at me and say "There's something different but I don't know what it is. You look so amazing". I told some people I was having my nose done, but never told anyone about the cheek implants. People always tell me I look like Shania Twain. Do I? Of course not, but I sure love to hear that. I think it is 1% what you already have to work with and 99% the skill and expertise of the surgeon. My doctor uses subtle, conservative techniques. I didn't want to look "done". Never give up on corrections of botched procedures. There are doctors out there that can help you.

You looks better than Shania!