Bichectomy or Bichatectomy - A small and simple intraoral surgical procedure with great facial results – Juniper Publishers

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Bichectomy or Bichatectomy - A small and simple intraoral surgical procedure with great facial results


Authored by Eber Luis de Lima Stevao


Abstract

Bichectomy is a simple and very safe surgical procedure indicated for patient with a rounded and wide face which can be performed as an outpatient surgery under intravenous or oral sedation. The result is a thinner lower third of the face. Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist, physician, and biologist, which lived in 1771 through 1802 who first described an encapsulated mass of fat in the cheek on the outer side of the buccinator muscle. The buccal adipose body of the cheeks has six extensions spread over the masseteric, superficial temporal, deep temporal, pterygomandibular, sphenopalatine and inferior orbital areas. Bichectomy or Bichatectomy, a more correct term, or simply cheek surgery in a lay term is a surgical procedure that removes a structure known as Bichat fat pad, which in some cases makes a person to look like overweight and not in harmony with the facial contour/balance laterolaterally. A patient candidate for this type of surgery normally has an excessive facial roundness, full aspect which give him/her a heavy-looking face.

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