chin

Sometimes, when a patient consults a doctor about nose surgery, the professional can see also, he / she needs a chin correction and recommend him/her to make an intervention jointly to achieve a better profile.

Mentoplasty to magnify the chin can be performed under local anesthesia and it is an outpatient surgery. An implant is inserted through a little incision under the chin. Another non-surgical technique consists by injecting filler (can be from patient's fat or different kind of lab materials).

Placing an implant is an advantage because the result is definitive. On the other hand, the advantage of injecting fillers is that it is a non-surgical procedure, and the professional will be able to perform the correct volume and shape in successive applications; but as a disadvantage, the patient will have to do this treatment again some years later.

The plastic surgery to correct a very developed chin is achieved by performing an incision under the chin and removing the spare tissue. In occasions, it can be combined by injecting a filler on the upper lip to enhance the result. The correction of prominence chin (owing to a prominent jawbone) is complex because a fracture will have to be performed to retract it.