Abstract
The objective was to study the long-term safety and benefits of facial implants. This was a retrospective study of patients undergoing facial implant surgery over a 10-year period. All surgery was performed by the senior author in a hospital or ambulatory facility. Four hundred and eighty-four questionnaires were sent to patients of the senior author who underwent malar or mandibular augmentation with preformed silicone implants during the years 1982 to 1992. Two hundred and seven replies were received. Patient satisfaction rate of 99% was recorded. No serious complications occurred. There were no instances of connective tissue or other related systemic disease in any of our patients following facial implant surgery.
Silastic implants in the malar and mandibular areas are safe procedures with a very high rate of patient satisfaction and a very low complication rate. Based on our study and those of others, there does not seem to be a relationship between silicone implants and the development of connective tissue disease.
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