What does it feel like getting a chin implant under local anesthesia?

Dear Californiachin,Chin augmentation can be done under local anesthesia. An IV sedation or oral sedation is given to the patient in order to numb the face and provide optimum comfort. The best way to assure your concerns is to discuss your specific condition with your doctor and gather more information about the procedure. I suggest, if your doubts do not subside, to under the procedure under general anesthesia.Best Wishes, Dr. Ali Sajjadian

With the local anesthetic you will not feel anything, but psychologically it might be better to have IV sedation or general anesthesia. This would make you unaware and entirely comfortable. If a patient is concerned that they will have a negative experience psychologically even though they will not feel pain, then it is better to take advantage of IV sedation or general anesthesia.

Although a chin implant could be placed with just local anesthesia, I would say more commonly, it would be done with IV sedation with local anesthesia.  It could also be done under general anesthesia.  When being performed with IV sedation and local anesthesia, there are some medications given through the IV which would make the patient sleepy and decrease any pain.  An injection of local anesthesia would then be placed to numb the area.  I normally use this type of anesthesia when performing chin augmentation and find that most patients are comfortable during the procedure.  The bone is not usually filed down but it is scraped to create the pocket.  

In our practice, we perform chin implants routinely under local anesthesia. The hardest part is just getting the chin numb with the local  anesthetic. After that, most patients are very comfortable  while the implant is being inserted n the pocket over the bone. The numbness usually takes approximately 2 hours to go away. Digital computer imaging may be helpful to understand what your  New chin  might look like.  For more information and many examples, please see the link below

Getting a chin implant under local in many ways should be very similar to getting dental work under local and depending on the local used the numbness after should be about the same.

Dr. Corbin

In my practice I always have an anesthesiologist on all cases with an intravenous line in with varying degrees of sedation. I feel this is the safest and most comfortable way for procedures to be performed. If you do not like the dentist then I highly suggest I.V. sedation with local for your chin augmentation. Depending on the type of local anesthesia used and the patient's personal metabolism the time of absorption varies. Your surgeon will discuss with you the process of chin augmentation and the approach that he/she uses i.e. intra oral or sub-mental. Follow up with your questions and concerns prior to your scheduled surgical appointment so that you may reduce any anxiety. Best regards, Michael V. Elam, M.D.

I almost always perform this surgery under inrtavenouis sedation so the patient has no awareness of the surgery. The local anesthesia wears off in 2-3 hours similar, but usually longer to dental anesthesia

I have been performing chin implant surgery for over  20 years and most often, I perform them under light anesthesia.  I have performed this procedure under local anesthesia for some patients.  Yes, you are awake with local anesthesia.  Typically, a pocket is created and the implant is placed.  Discuss all of your concerns about anesthesia with your surgeon.