I cannot find one single person who has had success with it. I had tried having my mentalis resuspended with my original surgeon and it was a failure, so I don't know if his technique was the problem or this procedure is just useless. In the age of face transplants, is it seriously the case that I now have to live the rest of my life disfigured from a complication I was never aware of in the first place?
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With your degree of chin/jaw shortness, young age and lip incompetence, you would be best served with a sliding genioplasty for your chin augmentation. Moving the chin bone would provide the best long-term solution.
You appear to have a growth pattern which has a 'shallow' cheekbone/midface area, long tapering jawline without notable width to the 'angles' of the jaw near the ear; and the narrow chin which looks long, when you smile due to the muscle pull. Ideally, review the xrays with a surgeon and...
A sliding genioplasty can improve mentalis strain and lower lip incompetence, particularly if the vertical dimension in decreased and the horizontal dimension is increased. A septorhinoplasty will improve nasal airway breathing and may decrease mouth breathing but will not improve lip incompetence.