Need a sliding genioplasty and jawline augmentation in Chicago. (Photo)

With an established and stable occlusion, only a sliding genioplasty bone surgery can be considered at this point for improvement of you recessed chin. Your chin deficiency in profile is well within the limits of what a sliding genioplasty can well correct.

To vertically shorten your chin and make it less round, an intraoral vertical chin reduction osteotomy would accomplish that very nicely and without any external scar. This is a chin bone issue and thus the chin bone itself must be altered to make this change.

When the chin is advanced straight it will look like the face has been elongated. This often is desirable on patients who have short face. However, on patients who have a long middle portion of the face, which is not uncommon, it is essential to angle the cut in such a way that while the chin is...

The thickness of the bone is not as much of limiting factor in moving the chin as are the other effects that I will mention. The side portions of the bone segments are still in contact and the plate can hold the segments together until they heal even with a gap of 4-5 mm. The limiting factors or...

Your chin reduction is reversible. It could be done by either undoing the sliding genioplasty or putting in a chin implant for augmentation.It would make the most sense to just undo the osteotomy and put the bone back in its original place since the problem you now have is that the vertical...

Thank you for asking about your cleft chin.Without your parents' consent, you can't have any medical treatment under age 18.Surgery may not be satisfactory -If this is bothersome, ask one of your parents to go with you to a plastic surgeon.In-office release of tissue creating the indentation...