I Have a Small Chin. I Want to Augment It but I Am Concerned with Bone Loss from Implants, Etc? (photo)

I am a 20 year old female. I have a square jaw which I love but my chin is very small. My frontal view of my face looks square as I do not have very much vertical length of the chin. And from the side I have some lack of projection and length. I was interested in a chin implant because I dont want to add too much more vertical length as I like the squareness but I am scared of bone erosion. And with sliding gen. I am afraid of titanium plate attracting harmful electromagnetic waves into my body.

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Minimal bone erosion with chin implant

The simplest, easiest, and most conservative method to improve the projection of the jaw is with a chin implant. The chin implant is made of silastic implant and inserted through a submental incision under local anesthesia. The size of the chin implant is determined at the time of the consultation. The chin implant augments the chin mostly in a forward projection. There is a small amount of width that is added due to the lateral wings on the implant and there is also... more