So-called osteotomy surgery is a surgical treatment to change the face shape by removing part of the cheekbone. This surgery does not require the removal of all bones, but uses a professional mold to grind the surface of the mandibular angle bone to reduce the width. However, do not imagine osteotomy as an invincible simple ‘addition and subtraction’, the amount that can be ground off from the mandible is very limited, at most only 5-6mm. So where can osteotomy be done?

Where can osteotomy be done

In short, it is to grind off part of the bone at the cheek position, making an unideal face shape into a standard melon seed face or egg-shaped face. The surgical site: there are those entering from the oral cavity, and those entering from the incision in front of the ear.

Among many plastic surgeries, compared with simpler surgical treatments such as double eyelid surgery, osteotomy is a major surgical treatment with relatively high risk.

Complications of osteotomy surgery

1. Bilateral significant differences, often occurring in inexperienced attending doctors. Some patients have different levels of differences before surgery, often ignored by doctors and patients.

The surgical method from the oral cavity, because of the concealed operation, has a high degree of difficulty in operation. The failure to achieve the slimming face effect with a simple rounded angle is a sign of unsuccessful osteotomy.

It often occurs in the surgical methods handled by doctors, dealing with mandibular angle hypertrophy with a simple rounded angle method, which, although solves the problem of the oblique line of the lateral angle, cannot fundamentally change the slimming face effect.

2. Mandibular angle reduction surgery may result in a lack of the mandible angle, and the failure of osteoplasty often occurs when the surgeon does not handle the inclination of osteotomy well during surgery, or blindly follows the trend to pursue a perfect slim face, resulting in excessive osteotomy and the loss of all normal angles, causing the second angle to shift, which is not very pleasing. Such situations require the repair of a doctor with rich experience.