Sliding genioplasty before jaw surgery?

Dear SouthernBird90,

In my professional opinion, you should not have your sliding genioplasty before your DJ S. It will skew your orthodontic analysis and facial analysis for your DJS. Additionally, the prior surgery would create scar tissue from that surgery that may hamper your DJS

Best wishes,

Earl Stephenson, Jr, MD, DDS, MBA
ESJ Aesthetcs

In most cases, I would not recommend performing a sliding genioplasty if I was planning to move the lower jaw forward at a later date with a sagittal osteotomy. Do you really want to go through 18 months of braces? If you can eat a normal diet and your teeth are straight (not a lot of crowding) then you might want to consider just a cosmetic correction with a sliding genioplasty. Many patients are told by their orthodontists that they need braces and corrective jaw surgery for an overbite or underbite but they just want to look better. Sometimes it comes down to function and aesthetics.