Soft Sculpture

Soft Sculpture

Bone Sculpture: A New Concept in Facial Feminization Surgery

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is frequently treated by transsexual women. Psychologically, it can be considered more important than sex reassignment surgery as it helps significantly in the social integration TG women, allowing a higher rate of "passing" as a genetic woman.

The face, a glance, gives us the first impression a person ... in that split second, the brain assigns a genre.

While other parts of the body can be hidden, disguised or exaggerated to look more feminine, is not always possible to mimic female facial features without surgical intervention. For this reason, women seeking transsexual facial feminization surgery in a manner to transform the face. However, ACE techniques allow us to obtain significant changes in the skull and face are often desired by women also genetic male with outstanding features.

In recent years, the facial skeleton has been treated almost exclusively by maxillofacial and craniofacial surgeons. Improvements surgical procedures and approaches to complex facial bones have allowed for remarkable results in facial surgery.

The ability to transfer these innovative techniques in the field of Facial Feminization Surgery allows us to deal directly with the contour of the bone. The effects of the facial bones are predictable sculpture, ensuring facial surgery results in the long term. The newly sculpting techniques developed are used directly on the bone surface to change the contours and volume, aimed at obtaining a more harmonious oval shape. Changes subtle or dramatic as possible, according to the desired results, following facial surgery:

- The sculpture of the importance brow bone,
- Smoothing the jawline
- Reducing the square chin or prominent
- Minimize the trachea Prominent (Adam's apple)

Soft tissues (skin, fat, muscle and tendon) are exposed to numerous agents of change (contraction and relaxation of muscles, retention liquids, the effect of gravity, loss of elasticity and adhesive properties, etc.), making it difficult to predict the results of surgery in these tissues in the long term. By contrast, the facial skeleton is not subject to the vectors of change like the previous, which means that surgical modifications will remain unchanged over time. Given this advantage and the analysis of the main differences between male and female facial skeletons, which are able to redefine a skeleton FFS human to achieve greater harmony and, ultimately, more feminine face.

About the Author

Dr. Luis M. Capitán is co-director of Facial Team, an internationally renowned team of professionals specialized in facial feminization surgery, based in Marbella, Spain and Sao Paulo, Brazil.