My neck connects straight to my chin! Procedure options? (photo)

I APPRECIATE YOUR PICTURES. This is the beauty of a sliding genioplasty. You can use a sliding genioplasty to move a chin backwards. This will lessen that prominence and soften your profile. I wish you much luck in your nasal revision. Sliding genioplasty at the same time would be an excellent...

As you now know, facial aesthetics are primarily based on facial, skeletal structure. Your mentalis or chin region of your mandible is actually quite ideal and the problem like your oral surgeon told you it’s further back in the mandible in the body of the mandible. No one has to have cosmetic s...

Making a quality craniofacial assessment is not easy or straightforward. The assessment should come from providers who offer the procedure and I don’t think an orthodontist is the correct person to do this. I think you’re much better off consulting with oral surgeons who have the capacity to do ...

I have no non-surgical recommendations for what you describe. I think you’re going to find non-surgical approaches to be inherently limited. Best, Mats Hagstrom, MD

Equality assessment needs to look at much more than your external profile. A good assessment needs to look at your dental occlusion to see if the problem is simply in the mentalis or in the body of the mandible. My personal belief is that oral surgeons tend to make slightly better assessments...

A reduction genioplasty is performed much less commonly than an advancement genioplasty. Often the reduction genioplasty involves the reduction of bone and soft tissue pad. Sometimes both procedures are performed simultaneously.