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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Vertical Lengthening Chin Implant

Background:  Chin implant surgery is the historically and still today the most commonly performed facial augmentation procedure. All contemporary chin implants, regardless of their style, are intended to provide a horizontal augmentative effect. In essence the implant is designed to be placed on the front edge of the chin bone just down to the inferior Read More…

The Aesthetic Effects of Blended (Extreme) Chin Augmentation

The classic debate, and sometimes an actual controversy, is whether chin augmentation is best done with an implant or by moving the chin bone. While patients and surgeons often try and compare them by their level of invasiveness, that is really an irrelevant and short-sighted thought process to that decision. That discussion more likely emanates Read More…

The Aesthetic Effects of the Bony Genioplasty – Horizontal Augmentation

Changing the position of the bony chin through an osteotomy is the alternative to that of an implant for certain chin reshaping effects. Unlike an implant, however, a bony genioplasty is capable of a wider array of dimensional changes. The bony chin position can be changed in all three dimensions from increasing horizontal projection, adding Read More…

Integrated Chin Augmentation Combining Sliding Genioplasty with Implants

Chin augmentation is one of the most common of all facial reshaping surgeries and is usually performed by the placement of an implant. This relatively ‘simple’ procedure works as long as the augmentation needs are within what the style and size of standard implants can provide. But not all chin augmentation patients are accepting of Read More…

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