Category: chin reduction

Correction of Hyperdynamic Chin Ptosis

The chin has many potential deformities that occur to it as the most projecting structure of the lower face. It is most common to think of chin deformities as bony in origin and that augmentation or reduction of its projection is the aesthetic objective. But the overlying soft tissues of the chin are also prone Read More…

OR Snapshots – Liimting the Incision Length in Submental Chin Reduction

Chin reduction is a far more challenging operation in many ways than chin augmentation. Unlike chin augmentation, which rarely has to consider the overlying soft tissue because it stretches it out, this is a major consideration when making the chin smaller. While the chin bone can be reduced in all of its dimensions (height, width Read More…

Technical Strategies – T-Shaped Osteotomy for Chin Width Reduction

The traditional chin bone procedure for aesthetic enhancement is that of a sliding genioplasty. Cutting the chin bone and moving it forward has been a facial bone reshaping procedure that has been done for over half a century. It is mainly used as a bony alternative to a synthetic chin implant for chin augmentation. It Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Submental Chin Reduction

Background: Chin augmentation is one of the most common facial reshaping procedures both historically and to the present day. While augmenting the chin is a straightforward procedure using a variety of implant shapes, management of the large chin (macrotia) is a completely different story. Not only is it less commonly needed but the procedure to Read More…

Preoperative X-Ray Planning in Submental Chin Reduction

Chin reduction surgery is sought for those patinets afflicted with a chin that is too strong or protrusive. A large chin can exist in numerous dimensions, albeit being vertically too long, too horizontally forward or too wide. In many cases the chin protrusion is caused by at least two and sometimes all three dimensional excesses. Read More…

The Submental Chin Reduction Technique

The treatment of macrogenia (large chin) is much different than that of microgenia (small chin) and is also more challenging. Expanding the chin (chin augmentation) can done very reliably and in a straightforward manner through an implant or sliding genioplasty as it pushes out the overlying skin and soft tissue. While a prominent chin bone Read More…

Submental Jawline Shave for Inferior Border Irregularities after Chin Reduction

Shaping of the jawline is done for many different reasons. The most common reason worldwide is tapering a wide jawline through a combination of a chin reduction osteotomies and jaw angle shaves or ostectomies. In other patients with just a large or long chin, a chin reduction osteotomy is used. When the chin is vertically Read More…

Technical Strategies – Muscle Resuspension in Vertical Chin Reduction

While a short chin is both common and easily treated by an implant or bony in most cases, the long or big chin is a much more challenging aesthetic issue. The tissue excess over the front end of the lower jaw makes its reduction fraught with problems of redundancy and potential tissue sag. Where does Read More…

Patient Testimonials: Chin Reduction

CHIN REDUCTION ‘I got a chin reduction with an incision under the chin few months ago. I wanted to give an update. I think Dr Eppley was right about this approach. The chin is smaller. I think it could be a little bit smaller but I definitely think the procedure was worth it. The Read More…

The Role of the Chin in Profileplasty

It is very common that multiple procedures are done on the face at the same time. Whether it be for anti-aging effects or for reshaping a face, combinations of procedures produce more profound changes. This is because the face is made up of many different parts and making significant changes often requires altering more than Read More…