What is a Medpor implant?
Medpor/Supor is a biocompatible, porous polyethylene implant used for craniofacial reconstruction and augmentation. It was used for many different types of surgeries such as cranial, orbital and later, ear reconstruction.
What is Medpor made of?
The Medpor implant is made of a medical-grade, high density polyethylene that is sintered to create a somewhat flexible framework of interconnecting pores4,11,12. The pore size range from 160 to 368 µm and more than half of these pores are larger than 150 µm in diameter11,12.
How long do silicone chin implants last?
Most implants last for a lifetime. Sometimes, implants made from bone or fat tissue that was taken from your body may be reabsorbed. Because you may have some swelling for months, you might not see the final appearance of your chin and jaw for 3 to 4 months.
Can Medpor implants be removed?
The most common complications associated with facial implants using synthetic biomaterials include infection, implant migration, and extrusion. These complications often call for the removal of the implant, though in the case of Medpor, the tissue ingrowth can lead to difficult surgical removal.
What is Gore Tex implant?
An expanded synthetic polymer known as Gore-Tex expanded polytetrafluoroethylene soft-tissue patch is available and is easy to use to approximate and correct defects; it also can be used as a filling material or to replace other kinds of prostheses to get better projection of frontal, orbital, malar, and chin areas.
Is microtia surgery covered by insurance?
Microtia treatment is typically covered by insurance. The MEDPOR or OMNIPORE technique requires a single outpatient procedure. Therefore, it will typically cost less than rib cartilage reconstruction, which requires a series of surgeries.
How safe are chin implants?
Chin augmentation cosmetic surgery is considered a very safe procedure and significant complications from chin implants are infrequent.
Does chin implant change your smile?
Because the implant is placed underneath the chin muscle, which is one of the many muscles that move the lips, there may be a temporary change in your smile. This is usually very brief and related to the swelling from surgery. Rarely is there permanent changes in your smile.
Do chin implants look natural?
Chin implants are designed to look and feel as natural as possible. A skilled plastic surgeon will be able to make informed recommendations on the size of the implant to suit each patient. Third, the chin implant will feel very different immediately after surgery than it will following recovery.
Which is better Gore-Tex or silicone?
Gore-Tex implants seem to have an overall complication rate similar to that of silicone implants. Thus, Gore-Tex can be considered as an alternative material for dorsal augmentation rhinoplasty but turned out not to have definite advantages over the silicone implants.
Does Gore-Tex implant shrink?
Answer: Goretex Implant The implant itself will not shrink. However, any nasal swelling will likely improve with time. Please discuss your concerns with your original surgeon who can help guide you in the postoperative course.
Can microtia be corrected?
Fortunately, microtia and atresia can usually be repaired, and the hearing loss treated.
What is the best type of chin implant?
Silicone Chin Implants. Silicone implants are the most common type used in chin augmentation surgery.
Is a chin implant worth it?
A Chin Implant is absolutely worth it. A Chin implant (even a small one) can make such a great difference visually on anyone- but especially on a male, providing a more balanced, masculine jawline and profile.
What is the recovery time for chin implants?
The operation can be performed under local or light sedation anesthesia in one hour. Recovery is short and many patients are back to work in 5 days. Chin implants look very natural. Friends and family think you have lost weight not had plastic surgery.
What size chin implant?
Chin implants come in sizes ranging from VVS (very,very small) to XXL, with each implant different from the next by 1mm (or 1/25th of an inch). Custom implants can even be created per your surgeon’s direction, and your own bone can be contoured, cut, and reattached using craniofacial techniques.