Achieve The Look You Desire through Facial Contouring

What is facial contouring?
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder is an old saying, but technological advancements have been made in the field of medicine to such an extent that beauty no longer lies in the eyes of the beholder, but in the hands of the surgeon. Yes, you are hearing it right, if you want to look like a celebrity, a surgery can merely make you look like one. Isn’t that exciting? That is all this article is about, it’s about how you can achieve the look you desire through facial contouring.

Facial contouring is the type of surgery that changes the shape of parts of your face such as the nose, ears or chin into your desired form. This procedure either augments the areas by filling up with one’s own tissue or by drastically reducing the prominent areas of your face including the bony and soft tissues surgically. Both ways, the procedure may sometimes make subtle changes while there are occasions when the results are very dramatic and very much noticeable.

Facial contouring procedure types
In order to achieve the look you desire through facial contouring, one must first need to know the various types of procedures that offer a facelift.

Chin augmentation – This is one of the face contouring procedures which rectifies a weak and receding chin. This surgery is done to improve the contrast of facial silhouette along with making your flat upper face look prominent.

Rhinoplasty – Also called the nose reshaping surgery, this is one of the most popular facial contouring procedures which can effectively reduce the size of your nose if you feel it is a bit oversized. Done not just to treat oversized noses, this procedure is also done to straighten a crooked looking nose, reduce the bulbous tip or otherwise remove that awkward bump on your nose.

Temple augmentation – This procedure is done to change the sterner look of Asians to a softer one by augmentation of the temples by various dermal fillers which are injected into the depression that has formed as a result of the ageing process.

Ear pinning surgery – For those of you who are worried about your ears sticking out of your heads, this simple out-patient procedure might be the answer. In this method, the ears are made to lie against the sides of your head, thereby diverting the attention of your protruding ears to your face.

Brow lift surgery – Yet another procedure done mainly as an age-lift surgery, this greatly enhances the sag that your age has created and helps to elevate them, thereby restoring back your youthful appearance. There have also been cases of eyelid lift surgeries done in a similar fashion.

Cheek bone augmentation – Also called as the reduction malarplasty or genioplasty procedure, this is one of the prominent facial contouring procedures that have been done to look more feminine. The masculine property offered by the prominent cheek bone is greatly reduced by this method, thus offering better balance to the facial features.

Mandible angle reduction – Face shapes greatly decide the looks of a person and facial contouring is all about altering the shape of the face too, especially from a round/angular face to an oval/heart shaped face. This is done effectively by reducing the angle of the mandible which can be achieved by using implants.

Combined surgeries – Now that we know some of the major face contouring procedures, most of them are done in combination, in order to achieve an overall effect on your face which is quite noticeable.

Definitive steps of the surgery
Irrespective of the various types of face lift surgeries that have been mentioned above, there are few definitive procedures that are common for all of them which includes – Pre-operative evaluation, the actual surgery procedure along with a post-operative care.

The Pre-operative evaluation determines the expectations set forth by the patient along with examining the medical history which is vital for finding the viability of the procedure itself. Further the face is assessed by X-rays and CT scans in order to understand the personal cranial makeup of the person, which helps evaluate the type of procedure to be done for the patient.

The actual procedure varies with each type of face contouring and it needs the aid of specialized doctors and other technicians to bring out the best results.

The final post-operative care is all about taking perfect care of the patient who might have risk of bleeding, infection, scarring, contour irregularities etc. Also the patients are advised to take proper medication prescribed by the doctor with ample rest to get back to normalcy.

Hope this article helps you achieve the look you desire through facial contouring.

Author Bio

Nelson Homes is a blogger for Hall and Wrye – aesthetic surgery reno. He likes to blog for beauty and skin care related topics. In his free time likes to research various cosmetic surgery procedures.