I'm 18, 5'2, and weigh 105 lbs. Despite being thin, I have a fat face. It's unlikely that it will get slimmer with age since that didn't happen to anyone in my family. I also have perioral mounds, mostly on the right side. I also have weird bulges under the corners of my lips. I don't know how I can solve these issues. I was thinking about buccal fat removal and perioral mound lipo, but I wonder if a genioplasty or chin implant would fix all the issues? Or maybe the three procedures combined?
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It’s not your chin that is a symmetrical as your entire face is asymmetrical. This is true for all people. Only about 2% of the population have something that resembles a symmetrical face.
During embryological development the right and left facial halves form independently of each other and e...
Generally, mentalis strain is caused by a recessive chin. Moving the chin forward with a genioplasty will improve the mentalis strain and reduce the lip incompetence.
The main dimension in which your chin is excessive is vertical and little width as well. This requires an intraoral vertical edge reduction genioplasty to both shorten it and make it more narrow.