InitRech 2015/2016, sujet 12

Summary

This article deals with a specific reconstructive facial surgery method, called fat-filling. The main purpose of this method is to inject some fat between different layers of tissus, which compose the skin and the muscles of the face, in order to reinflate the face and to fill hemifacial deformations which can be caused by accidents or more often by diseases like the Parry-Romberg Syndrome.

This fat-filling is kinda different compared with all the plastic surgeries that we hear about every day. Those surgeries, like the breast augmentation or other facial modifications, often use implants, and it is easy to find works ans documentations about those methods.

The main aim of this research is to propose an efficient model, able to simulate the final rendering of that kind of surgery and the problems that could be encountered. In fact, this model takes into account specific information about the patient, particularly his anatomy (ligaments, nerves and blood vessels), which can prove to be obstacles for the injected fat.

With those specific datas, and with the help