Category: chin augmentation | plastic surgery case study | sliding genioplasty | submentoplasty

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Sliding Genioplasty and Submentoplasty for Prior Failed Chin Implant and Neck Fat Injections

Background: The ‘debate’ between an implant and the sliding genioplasty for chin augmentation is an historic one and is often influenced by surgical specialty and patient preference. This debate can be largely irrelevant in modest chin augmentations where their aesthetic effects are more similar. But their aesthetic benefits begin to differ when the anatomic makeup Read More…

Technical Strategies – Fat Injection Grafting of the Labiomental Fold To Treat Its Deepening with Chin Augmentation

Chin augmentation, whether by an implant or a sliding genioplasty, is one of the most commonly performed facial reshaping procedures. While it has many benefits it has one potential aesthetic liability…deepening of the labiomental fold. It is not a question of whether this will occur after chin augmentation but whether it will be significant or Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Decompressing The Shortened Soft Tissue Chin Pad With The Vertical Lengthening Chin Implant

Background: The most common dimensional need for many chin augmentations is in the horizontal direction. But the most overlooked dimensional need in chin augmentation is vertical. For some patients the horizontal increase is enough to produce the slight vertical increase that is needed with the forward roll of the soft tissue chin pad. But for Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Sliding Genioplasty Replacement for Inadequate Mersilene Mesh Chin Implant

Background: Chin implants come in a wide variety of styles, sizes and materials. Much is made of the implant material by some surgeons and patients based on the perception that the materials create significantly different biologic behaviors. And while there are some tissue adhesion differences between the materials, the biologic response of any material is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Synergestic Effects of Chin Augmentation and Submental/Neck Liposuction

Background: The chin and neck are related more than just by anatomic proximity. The prominence or angularity of one affects the appearance of the other one. Aesthetically it is difficult to separate one from the other. A short chin makes the neck appears less defined. Conversely a neck that is more obtuse makes the chin/jawline Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Modified Vertical Lengthening Chin Implant for Correction of Lower Facial Disproportion and Soft Tissue Sag

Background: Chin augmentation is primarily about an increase in the horizontal dimension. This is why the vast majority of before and after results seen are only shown in the profile view. It is also why most preoperative imaging is also done in the side view as well. While one can have a debate about how Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Sliding Genioplasty Movement for Extreme Chin Augmentation

Background: The sliding genioplasty is the autologous option for chin augmentation that has both its advocates and advantages in the properly selected patient. In the ‘average’ chin augmentation patient, where horizontal augmentation is the need, it completes with chin implants and the decision between the two must be carefully considered by the patient. When the Read More…

Adaptive Bone Changes from Chin Augmentation By Injectable Fillers

While injectable fillers were initially introduced for their soft tissue augmentation effects, their use has become expanded for facial contouring which often equates to bone augmentation. One common site for injectable facial bone augmentation is the chin. Chin augmentation by injection can be a good option for some patients who seek an immediate non-surgical result Read More…

Technical Strategies – Intraoperative Fabrication of a True Female Chin Implant

The general concept of the ‘female chin implant’ is one that provides a more feminine lower third facial appearance. This typically means providing horizontal augmentation in the recessive appearing chin but no additional width when seen from the frontal view. In some females that may even desire a more narrow or tapered chin in the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Tapered Chin Implant Augmentation

Background: Chin implant augmentation is the most common form of facial bone reshaping done. While it was the first type of facial implant procedure ever done, it still remains as the most commonly recognized and performed. While it is requested by both men and women, there is probably a larger number done in men. This Read More…