Do I have a recessed chin? (Photo)

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Do you think that a chin implant or a nose job might help me?

Jonathan Kulbersh, MD · Answer

A chin implant would improve your projection and profile. You have a few options to improve the projection and symmetry of your chin and profile. If you’re not sure you’re ready for surgery, but still want to improve and strengthen your chin, I’d suggest augmenting your chin with Sculptra and/or Voluma. If you like your new look, you can make it permanent with a chin implant. I hope that helps.

Barry L. Eppley, MD, DMD · Answer

Your chin is horizontally short with high jaw angles, showing an overall lower jaw underdevelopment. The question is whether your goal is to just address the chin deficiency or have an overall total jawline augmentation effect. That would determine what your best surgical options for correction are.

Francis R. Palmer, III, MD (retired) · Answer

Hi, I have performed many facial shaping procedures using dermal fillers, silastic facial implants (cheek, chin), liposuction and/or facelifts for over 30 years.  Following my beauty principles, men look chiseled and handsome with angularity in the cheeks, chin and mandibular angles.  From the photos, your cheeks are flat in the front, the chin is very weak as are the mandibular angles.  This combines to create an elongated, thin, rectangularly-shaped face.  The following procedures would create a more ruggedly handsome face by creating angularity in the appropriate places.
Cheek augmentation with precise placement of a dermal filler of by using silastic cheek implants to add angularity to the cheeks and mid face.  
Chin augmentation, using a chin implant, to add projection to the chin creating harmony and balance to the lower face.  I have performed many facial shaping procedures, including Chin Augmentation with dermal fillers or silastic chin implants, for over 30 years.  When the chin is weak, this creates an imbalance making the nose appear larger, the mid face top heavy, the lower face looks short, de-emphasizes the lips and allows early formation of a "double chin".  Proper placement of a silastic chin implant adds forward projection to the chin thereby creating harmony and balance to the lower face.  Using the same incision, liposuction can be performed to reduce the fat and further shape the neck.  Excess skin, from below the chin, can also be removed through the same incision.  I have found that placement of a silastic chin implant, through a small curved incision under the chin (also allows excess skin removal) to be very safe, quick, highly effective and far less invasive than a sliding genioplasty (requires extensive tissue dissection, bone cuts and placement of metal screws and plates to secure the cut bone segments).  I perform chin implant surgery in 30 minutes or less, often using a local anesthetic alone.  In my opinion, you are a good candidate for chin implant surgery.  
Augmentation of the mandibular angles using a dermal filler (jaw implants have too many unwanted side effects IMHO) to add volume, angularity and flare to the jaw line.
Hope this helps.

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