In general, patients seeking a facial implant usually fall into one or more broad categories. Patients are either born with facial abnormalities such as Treacher Collins syndrome, have sustained injury to the face requiring reconstruction or...

want to improve their appearance through facial augmentation. In order to have this procedure you will need to be physically and mentally healthy. Your surgeon or other physician will perform a physical to determine your fitness for surgery. Also, your surgeon will discuss what you hope to accomplish by having facial implant surgery and what results are realistic. People of all ages and genders have facial implant surgery though it is more likely that men will seek out a chin implant while women will want implants placed in the cheeks. Many surgeons will not insert facial implants on children until they have reached a certain age and their adult facial features have become defined. The obvious exception to this is that plastic surgeons will correct birth defects of the face relatively early in life. When facial implants are placed in children they are much more likely to need surgical revision as the child grows.