Abstract
The present study was performed to describe how much affordable, feasible, and straightforward
is the approach the authors called “single-stage full-face surgical profileplasty,”
tailored to greatly improve the surgery of the facial profiling setting and achieve
complete profile correction at the same time. From January 2010 to May 2019, 113 patients
(95 females and 18 males; aged 19 − 63 years) were surgically treated for full-face
profile amelioration. Profile correction was performed by using a combination of five
procedures out of other various previously experienced: forehead fat grafting, rhinoplasty,
lip fat grafting, genioplasty, and submental liposuction. All patients were assessed
at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months following surgery for assessing the surgical profile treatment
(SPT) outcome and any possible side effects of the combined treatment. Facial profile
stability at 1 year was taken as the completion point of this treatment. Arnett et
al's “Soft Tissue Cephalometric Analysis” (1999) was used to clinically evaluate the
soft tissues before and after the SPT. Patients' satisfaction was measured with the
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8” at 3 and 12 months after surgery. Statistics
were used for Arnett et al's evaluation. Almost all the values were consistent and
reached the normal ranges indicated by Arnett et al (p < 0.001), confirming that the desired results of the surgical profileplasty have
been achieved. Single-stage full-face surgical profile treatment helps in correcting
faults of the global facial deformity, in every single treated area, providing an
overall improvement in facial aesthetics and harmony. Obtaining the simultaneous correction
in the whole face has also the advantage of avoiding multiple surgical procedures,
reducing postoperative discomfort, and the overall risks for the patient due to multiple
surgical and anesthetic procedures.
Keywords
beauty - profileplasty - Arnett et al's cephalometric analysis - aesthetic surgery
- facial harmony
