Facial Contouring Surgery Fixing Pins

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Face Contouring Fixing Pins

Among patients considering facial contouring surgery or two-jaw surgery, they often wonder if the fixing pins used during surgery should be removed.

Facial contouring surgery can be roughly divided into two types. The first is a bone shaving and the other is a bone shaving and moving method.

For surgery to shave bones like square jaw reduction, fixing pins are not used, but most of the surgery that requires moving bones, such as cheekbone reduction and chin-tip surgery, uses fixing pins. The fixing pin is to fix the bones moved after surgery so that they are well fused in the changed position.

How well the bones adhere determines the outcome of the surgery. Although it is important to trim the bones well, healing the bones is also a very important process in facial contouring. The bones fixed with a fixing pin go through the process of adhesion over about 3 months.

The reason why patients usually want to remove the fixing pin is that they are reluctant to have foreign objects in the body from a psychological point of view, and that they may feel embarrassed to see the fixing pin on the X-ray. However, it is not necessary to remove the fixing pin for health reasons. The fixing pin is usually made of a metal component called titanium, and it is a safe material that is commonly used in other surgical fields such as dental implant surgery and cardiac stand surgery as well as face contouring surgery. Also, the pin is non-magnetic and cannot be detected by a metal detector.

For this reason, some use a melting pin, but the melting pin has a disadvantage in that the strength is weaker than that of titanium. If the thickness of the melting pin is thickened to have similar strength to the titanium pin, it may be difficult to manipulate it during surgery. That said, it is difficult to expect a highly complete surgery.

However, if you do not like or have a burden to see the fixing pin on the X-ray during dental treatment, you can completely remove it through pin removal surgery. Occasionally, if a long time elapses after face contouring surgery, the bone may be covered over the fixed pins. In this case, the pin may not be 100% removed. Therefore, if you absolutely want to remove the fixing pin, it is the best timing to get it done from 3-6 months to 1 year after surgery that is the period of the bones adhere.

Dr. Chang Hyun Oh from Banobagi Plastic Surgery Clinic said, “Since fixing pin removal surgery also involves touching the bones, a specialist with extensive clinical experience in facial bone surgery should be selected. In addition, the safety system, as well as whether an anesthesiologist resides in the hospital, and whether 1:1 dedicated anesthesia is possible must be checked.”

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