A well defined chin helps give balance to the face and creates a major part of one’s profile. When people look in the mirror, chin is not the first feature they notice, but having a weak chin is certainly not an asset. Considering the whole face in aesthetic units, alteration of one unit may disturb the balance of whole face. So if a surgery on nose is being considered, it render an already weak and retruded chin even more obviously weak and unsightly. Sometimes the chin is too pointy and prominent, again rendering the balance of the face disturbed. In these cases a REDUCTION GENIOPLASTYis needed to make chin less protruding.
There are multiple ways in which the shape of chin can be altered depending on nature and severity of condition.
Fillers:
Synthetic Fillers in the form of Restylene or autologous fat can be used as filler material. This is especially helpful in mildly smaller, retruded or too pointy chin.
Bony Genioplasty:
In severely protruding or retruded chins filling with fillers ones not get desired results. Similarly the implant has chances of giving an overly made look. In these cases, the alteration in chin’s own bony framework by osteotomies and re-placement of bony architecture at desired projection gives a far natural and aesthetically pleasant result.
Chin Implants:
in severely weak and retruded chin a silicon, customised for a specific patient gives the best result.