Category: chin reduction | facelift

Female Chin Reduction with Facelift

A female chin reduction combined with a facelift can be an effective facial balancing procedure when an overly prominent chin contributes to a masculine lower face or detracts from a youthful neck and jawline. The key is to reduce the chin in a way that preserves feminine proportions while allowing the facelift to enhance soft Read More…

Submental Soft Tissue Chin Pad Excision Case Example

A submental soft tissue chin pad excision is a direct surgical procedure designed to reduce the bulk of the soft tissue over the bony chin (chin pad). It is most useful in patients whose chin appears overly full despite having a normal chin bone projection. The excess is usually a combination of fibrofatty tissue, subcutaneous Read More…

Submental Bony Chin Bump Reduction Case Example

chin inferior border bony bumps Bony bumps along the inferior border of the chin (mandible) are fairly common and can cause visible chin asymmetries with a longer ‘bump’ side. These are usually normal anatomical variations of a developmental origin and are rarely indicative a of more major jaw abnormality. These normal bony irregularities have the following features: Read More…

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…

Aesthetic Chin Surgery Concepts – How To Avoid Complications

Having performed thousands of every conceivable type of aesthetic chin surgery I have learned many basic lessons in how to avoid complications and undesired outcomes. I see on an almost daily basis patients that inquire about unsatisfactory chin surgery results most of which fall into consistent patterns. Had the surgeon followed some basic rules in Read More…

Secondary Submental Chin Reduction After A Primary Intraoral Chin Reduction – Case Study

Introduction Bony chin reduction, when performed by shaving, can be done from two different approaches, either from above (intraoral) or from below (submental). While both approaches provide access to the chin bone the dimensional reductions that can be achieved between ram are different. The submental approach provides direct, wide exposure of the lower chin bone Read More…

Submental Chin Pad Excision Technique

Introduction A submental chin reduction (or submental contouring) is a surgical procedure designed to reshape the chin by reducing excessive projection or fullness beneath it — often referred to as a “double chin.” This should be differentiated from a submentoplasty or platysmaplasty, which targets the neck rather than the chin. Those procedures focus on removing Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Submental Reduction of Female Bony Chin Reduction and Dynamic Chin pad Ptosis

Background: The excessively projecting chin is most commonly perceived as a bone problem. And while that can be true in some patients a soft tissue excess can potentially be created by bone reduction alone. This is particularly relevant when an excessive soft tissue problems exists initially. This is most commonly seen when a stronger than Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Submental Technique for Chin Deprojection and Hyperdynamic Chin Pad Ptosis Correction

Background: In female chin augmentation, whether it is done by implant or a bony advancement, consideration must be given to avoiding an aesthetic over correction. The traditional cephalometric measurements that indicate the ideal position of the chin does not really apply to most women. What matters aesthetically is not what the bone or soft tissue Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Submental Approach to Hyperdynamic Chin Pad Ptosis after Intraoral Chin Reduction

Background: The chin is seen as a relatively ‘simple’ anatomic structure with few risks of any neurovascular or dental complications from surgical implant or osteotomy manipulations. And while this is true from any major medical complications this is not accurate when it comes to aesthetic complications. The relationship of the enveloping soft tissue over the Read More…