Danger and Facts about Double Chin Surgery
Double chin surgery is used to give you a new shape under your chin and jaw. Where some cosmetic chin surgery is used to reshape the bone structure with implants or bone reduction, double chin surgery just removes any fat or hanging skin under the chin. It also removes any texture beneath the chin caused by corded muscles. People who have facial cosmetic surgeries like face lifts often need double chin surgery, which is a separate type of procedure.
I don’t relish the idea of having surgery of any kind. As doctors will tell you, all surgery carries some risk. You are being cut and manipulated inside your body. It’s a big decision to let someone do that to you when you really need it for better health, let alone just to improve your appearance. I think it’s important that anyone considering this type of surgery looks at the pros and cons of surgery over other methods of reducing a double chin.
A little bit of research revealed to me that the most common way of dealing with a double chin surgically is liposuction. Have you ever watched a reality program that showed liposuction? It looks violent to me. I’ve only seen stomach and hip liposuction, but that was enough to make me never want to try to the procedure. Of course they have to make an incision, and then the suck tube is shoved in and literally jerked around, in and out, because they’re breaking up the fat and sucking it out.
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Under chin liposuction is done the same way, will a smaller tube and not as much room to yank it around, obviously. It seems like a pretty gruesome procedure to me. After the liposuction to remove the excess fat, the muscles are sutured together or cut, depending on the particular situation. A chin implant is sometimes added, if the chin is weak.
The benefit of this type of double chin surgery is that one day you have a double chin, and by that night it’s gone. But I really think you have to look beyond the pros. Your double chin is gone, but in its place you have pain, bruising, stitches and at least a week of recovery time before it’s recommended that you go back to your daily routine. Even then, you may be stuck eating soft foods for a while, as well as having to really shield your face from the slightest bump. There can be swelling and numbness for a few months. And if you have incisions in your mouth, as you do in some cases, you have a heightened risk for infection.
Not only can the numbness be permanent, you’ll pay up to $5,000 for all of this. I think there’s a better way: doing facial exercises designed to trim up a double chin and reduce face fat. The routines cost a fraction of what double chin surgery would cost, and it only takes a few minutes with no recovery time, no pain and no risks. I think exercises are the clear, safe winner here.
