Is there a way to balance my profile without surgery? (Photos)

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I’ve recently realized how much i dislike my chin, especially from the side. It looks very funny, espcially when i talk. I dont like the ball shape on top of it or the way it sticks out. My whole profile just looks funny. Is there a way to balance my profile without surgery?

Anna Chacon, MD, FAAD · Answer

Thank you for sharing your concerns and photos. It’s completely understandable to feel self-conscious about your profile—small changes in the chin can really affect how the entire face looks in motion and from the side.

There are non-surgical options that can help balance your profile and soften the areas you’re concerned about:

Dermal Fillers: Strategic placement of fillers along the chin and jawline can help reshape the contour, smooth out any “ball-like” prominence, and create a more harmonious profile.

Botox or Neuromodulators: In some cases, relaxing certain muscles around the chin or jaw can reduce tension or dimpling that affects the profile.

Combination Approaches: Sometimes using both fillers and neuromodulators can give subtle but noticeable improvement without surgery, helping the chin blend more naturally with the rest of the face.

While non-surgical treatments won’t remove or reduce bone, they can provide temporary but reversible improvement, and adjustments can be made over time to refine the balance. It’s very common to start with fillers to see how much improvement is possible before considering any surgical options.

Your concern is valid, and even small adjustments can make a big difference in how balanced your profile looks and feels.

Nelson Lee Novick, MD · Answer

At least from the photos provided, it would appear that a medium viscosity HA could be used to add volume and create greater projection for the lips. A frontal view of the lips would have been helpful, but at least from what I can see in profile, the additional use of a low viscosity, cohesive, malleable HA filler can be used for enhance the vermilion borders of the lips and provide a nice nonsurgical "lip lift" that would further improve the profile view. At the same time, the use of a robust HA lifting filler can be used for the chin crease (the so-called "mental crease"--the horizontal crease running below the lower lips and above the chin), which would, especially in profile view, diminish the apparent over-projection of the chin.
You would be wise to consult with an experienced, board certified cosmetic dermatologist injector expert in whose hands all of the aforementioned can be performed in one treatment sessions of no more than about 3/4 of an hour. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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