HTR(R) POLYMER FACIAL IMPLANTS - A 5-YEAR CLINICAL-EXPERIENCE

Forty-three patients at two different international sites underwent on lay facial augmentation of the malar, paranasal, and chin regions usin g 61 HTR(R) polymer preformed implants. All implants were placed intra orally and rigidly fixed with a titanium screw. Over postoperative per iods ranging from two to five years, one implant was removed because o f infection. Two other implants in patients with rheumatic and connect ive tissue disease were removed because of persistent pain and erythem a. Another peri-implant infection was treated successfully without rem oval. One-year postoperative radiographs in patients with chin implant s demonstrated no underlying bone resorption. This porous polymeric ma terial appears to offer clinical results comparable to other alloplast ic materials for onlay facial skeletal augmentation.