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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…

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…

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…

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