I was told on here that my chin is " horizontally short but vertically elongated as well " and that a chin implant wouldn't be a good idea because no chin implant can give me a horizontal projection more than 12mm, which wouldn't improve my face that much. Looking a photos of my chin from the side it seems further back than the photos I have seen of patients who have successfully had a sliding genioplasy, I'm curious as if I'm misinterpreting how much the procedure could more my chin forward.
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This degree of chin protrusion is a combination of excess bone AND soft tissue. Your chin reduction should be from a submental approach where the both the excess bone and soft tissue can be removed. Any intraoral chin reduction approach will not deal with the excess soft tissue chin pad which...
You can not move the bones of your face forward unless you are willing to adversely affect your bite. Thus a flat midface and infraorbital rims need to be augmented. Bone augmentation using custom designed implants would be the simplest and most effective method to bring the midface forward....
