Many beauty seekers are confused about whether to remove the masseter muscle at the same time when performing mandibular angle osteotomy. They think that mandibular angle and masseter muscle removal at the same time can narrow the width of the face at the same time and achieve a better face-lifting effect. Is this true?
The masseter muscle is a rectangular, flat muscle that is the main execution muscle of bite movements. Together with buccinator muscle , temporalis muscle , medial pterygoid muscle , lateral pterygoid muscle , orbicularis oris muscle , etc., they work together to complete the chewing action. It is always very soft when not biting, and only when strong It only rises when biting.
Cutting off the mandibular angle while removing the masseter muscle was a popular method in the past, but now the mainstream solution is not to remove the masseter muscle. The reasons are as follows:
The wide lower face we usually talk about is manifested when the masseter muscle is saggy, and there is no bite action at this time. What affects the frontal width of the lower face is the overall width of the mandible. Although this area overlaps with the masseter muscle area, it is basically a problem of wide bones. Masseter muscle removal cannot achieve a better face slimming effect.
In addition, the masseter muscle has the function of modifying the contour of the cheek. Uneven removal can easily lead to facial asymmetry, unevenness, etc. If too much masseter muscle is taken out, the back half of the facial contour will become narrower and the front half will become wider. Although the overall contour is smaller, the face will not be refined. There are important tissue structures such as blood vessels, nerves, and parotid ducts in and around the masseter muscle. A little carelessness can cause damage or destruction of these tissues, resulting in bleeding, hematoma and other effects.
The lower insertion point of the masseter muscle is mostly at the angle of the mandible. After the mandibular angle resection, the area of the insertion point is smaller. At the same time, when the insertion point of the masseter muscle is surgically peeled off, part of the masseter muscle will naturally atrophy, and the bite movement will be affected after the operation. The strength will be artificially reduced, and the muscles will naturally atrophy, so the masseter muscle can be made smaller without removing the masseter muscle.
In fact, large masseter muscles can be improved conveniently, simply and quickly by injecting face-slimming injections. There is no need to choose surgery.
Because in mandibular angle surgery cases, there are not many people with particularly enlarged masseter muscles. The main reason for the wide lower face is the wide mandibular angle bone. Mandibular angle osteotomy or external plate grinding can achieve the overall face slimming effect. .
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