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Cheek Implants: Augmentation Surgery, Recovery, and Benefits

Understanding cheek reshaping using implants and augmentation surgeries in New York with Dr. Jacono.

What Is Cheek Augmentation?

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Cheek augmentation is a surgical procedure that refines the size and shape of the cheekbones. Normally, this is done with implants, but some augmentations use soft fat tissue transferred from other parts of the body.

Cheek reduction, on the other hand, reduces the size of the cheekbone. The procedure involves filing or burring down the bone itself.

The aim of both cheek augmentation and reduction is to create a well-defined skeletal structure that balances the face. The cheeks’ appearance is especially integral to the integrity of the facial profile.

Understanding the Cheek Implant Procedure

Before a cheek augmentation, Dr. Jacono uses digital computerized 3-D morphing technology to analyze the face and set goals for surgery.

During the procedure, Dr. Jacono cuts a small incision in the mouth. He then gently stretches the tissue, creating space for an implant or fat transfer. Once the implant or fat has been placed over the skeletal bone, Dr. Jacono uses fine sutures to close the incisions. The scars are usually imperceptible.

Dr. Jacono uses many implant materials, including Silastic, GoreTex, and Medpor. He also uses custom implants based on patients’ particular needs.

How to Know If You Need Cheek Implants

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Many people who undergo cheek implant surgery do so to address age-induced problems. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Drooping jowls
  • Hollowing cheeks
  • Sagging skin
  • Deepening under-eye troughs
  • Developing nasolabial folds

Some patients get cheek implants after consistently using injectable fillers like hyaluronic acid. Fillers are not permanent and do not always provide dramatic results.

Cheek implants and fat transfers, on the other hand, last a lifetime and offer considerable aesthetic and functional improvements.

Still, other patients get surgery simply because they have always wanted plumper cheekbones and a more robust facial structure. Even subtle changes can boost self-confidence and quality of life.

What is Recovery Like Following Cheek Augmentation?

After a cheek augmentation, the cheeks may swell and bruise, though these complications will resolve within a few weeks. Most patients can return to work or resume their daily activities after a few days. Patients should do their best to avoid injuring the cheek region for at least 4 to 6 weeks.

Am I a Good Candidate for Cheek Augmentation?

If you are dissatisfied with the appearance of your cheeks, then you are a candidate for cheek augmentation surgery. Those who have experienced physical trauma to their cheeks are also viable for surgery.

Patients should be in good health and refrain from using alcohol or tobacco before and after surgery.

Why Choose Dr. Jacono for Your Cheek Procedure?

Dr. Jacono is a dual board-certified facial plastic surgery expert with over twenty years of experience. He has been extensively trained in cheek augmentation and reduction surgery and offers the most natural, impressive results possible.

To see if you are a candidate for surgery with Dr. Jacono, please contact our offices in Manhattan or on Long Island.

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Cheek Implant Patient:

This young woman had a weak cheek structure and wanted to create a more harmonious aesthetic balance and heart shaped face. After surgery the cheeks are augmented and natural.

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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.