Category: chin clefts | chin implants | chin osteotomy | chin ptosis correction | chin reduction

Aesthetic Chin Surgery Concepts To Avoid Complications

Based on anatomy and an understanding of their interrelationships, the following are important aesthetic tenets about manipulations of the chin region: These particularly relevant to augmentation. Men will tolerate a larger chin than women It is generally acceptable to augment the chin in a male to a vertical line dropped down from the lower lip. Read More…

The 3D Bony Anatomy of Chin Clefts and Dimples

The chin is a unique facial area because its surface can have some very distinct features. Two types of topographic chin features can occur, dimples and clefts. While often confused they are different in shape. A chin dimple is located in the central chin pad and is a circular indentation. A chin cleft is a Read More…

Technical Strategies – Fat Injection Reduction of Chin Clefts

While the chin can have a wide variety of different dimensional appearances, it has only a few potential topographic features. The labiomental fold is the superior horizontal indentation that may be present and the lower soft tissue chin pad can have indentations of various shapes from circular (dimples) to vertical. (clefts) It is common misconception Read More…

The Tom Brady Chin Dimple Procedure

I had a patient in the distant past that wanted a procedure to give him ‘Tom Brady’s chin dimple’. In considering such a procedural request the fundamental question is why do chin dimples occur? What is their anatomic makeup? First chin dimples must be differentiated from chin clefts. A dimple is a circular indentation of Read More…

Technical Strategies – Vertical Chin Cleft Creation with Chin Implant Augmentation

The chin has few topographic features on an otherwise round convex shape as it covers the projecting chin bone. Chins can have either a dimple or cleft. A chin dimple is a circular central indentation of the soft tissue chin pad. A chin cleft is a vertical indentation through the lower half of the chin Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Chin Cleft Creation Surgery

Background: One of the very unique aesthetic features of the chin are dimples and clefts. While often perceived as being similar, they are not. Chin dimples are central circular indentations in the central mound of the chin pad. A chin cleft is a vertical groove located more along the inferior chin pad and crosses along Read More…

Technical Strategies – Square Chin Implant and Vertical Cleft Creation

Chin augmentation is most commonly done by placement of a synthetic silicone implant. Chin implants today come in a wide variety of dimensions, historically providing only horizontal projection, but now available in vertical lengthening styles as well. For men chin implants are even available to provide an increase in width, also known as a square Read More…

Technical Strategies – A Modified Suture Technique in Chin Dimple Creation Surgery

Cheek dimples are indentations in the central area of the chin soft tissue pad of varying degrees of depth. They are caused by a defect in the mentalis muscle and thickness of the overlying fat that causes the skin to be drawn inward. It is a genetically-inherited trait and has been associated with chromosome Read More…

Correction of Vertical Chin Clefts

Midline clefts of the chin are both a desired as well as a disliked facial feature. For some patients who have these chin clefts naturally, they would like the depth of the cleft softened or even completely removed. Such a procedure, chin cleft reduction, is possible. Contrary to popular perception, clefts of the chin Read More…

Chin Cleft Surgery – Making Them or Removing Them

A cleft or dimple of the chin is a visible indentation in the midline of the chin prominence. It can be small or quite deep and its presence is genetically determined. (dominant gene) It has appeared on many well known faces and most people can quickly name at least one famous person who has Read More…