Do all facial trauma maxfac surgeons also work with facial implants?

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makes sense that if someone can do complex osteotomies to treat facial trauma that they probably also possess the skillset to use facial implants

also talked to 2 surgeons in this exact case, who use Titanium, Silicon, and PEEK implants but don't advertise it on their website, so I'm thinking a lot more surgeons than we know work with facial implants which is obviously lifefuel as it means we have more docs to choose from
 
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Berlin doc told me he uses hip bone for grafts in the face or smth lifefuel for wide hipcels :feelsautistic:
 
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Berlin doc told me he uses hip bone for grafts in the face or smth lifefuel for wide hipcels :feelsautistic:
you can't just use bone grafts everywhere tho
 
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you can't just use bone grafts everywhere tho
man told me he can put them around my orbits but dont take my word for it tho I will report on this back in a month after consult and surgery
 
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man told me he can put them around my orbits but dont take my word for it tho I will report on this back in a month after consult and surgery
afaik the graft will just dissolve, same reason you can't use them to augument jaw

they do seem to use bone grafts for rhino just fine though so maybe it has something to do with blood supply or some shit? not sure tbh

@RealSurgerymax

according to eppley:
Besides the harvest issues, the amount of metal fixation needed to hold them in place and that the shape outcome would not be smooth, onlay bone grafts are associated with significant resorption. For bone grafts to stay and maintain volume they have to be functionally loaded. Adding more bone that is what is naturally there as an only graft has no functional purpose. Thus much of it would be resorbed within one year after tiger surgery


not sure what he means by functionally loaded
 
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man told me he can put them around my orbits but dont take my word for it tho I will report on this back in a month after consult and surgery
just checked and for rhino resorption rate is 20-30%

so I guess the reason it's shitty for jaw augumentation is because of contour irregularities due to resorption, but in other places it might be fine
 
yea but their job is to save people after car crashes why you want them to be doing your implants
 
yea but their job is to save people after car crashes why you want them to be doing your implants
they dont just do facial trauma surgery all the time jfl

a lot of the time they do wisdom teeth extractions, orthognathic surgery etc. so whats wrong with having them do facial implants as well?
 
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afaik the graft will just dissolve, same reason you can't use them to augument jaw

they do seem to use bone grafts for rhino just fine though so maybe it has something to do with blood supply or some shit? not sure tbh

@RealSurgerymax

according to eppley:
Besides the harvest issues, the amount of metal fixation needed to hold them in place and that the shape outcome would not be smooth, onlay bone grafts are associated with significant resorption. For bone grafts to stay and maintain volume they have to be functionally loaded. Adding more bone that is what is naturally there as an only graft has no functional purpose. Thus much of it would be resorbed within one year after tiger surgery


not sure what he means by functionally loaded
there goes my plan to widen my ipd
 
yup my country's best trauma maxfac surgeon does implants as well as sliding genio etc jaw surgeries, trying to get consultation for djs but he still aint calling
 
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