I have a 16mm receding chin. Jaw surgery is not an option for me. My surgeon told me that the maximum chin advancement he could do is 10mm. I'm excited to do the genioplasty but I'm afraid of the result... do you think that 10mm will be enough and good looking?
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With a 100% overbite you ideally need a combined orthodontic and lower jaw advancement surgery. But if you are to bypass that option and just deal with the chin issue the next best option becomes a vertical opening bony genioplasty to stretch down a vertically short chin. (which is why the soft...
A widening bony genioplasty is not going to make a square chin like you have shown. That has distinct corners which can only be created by an implant or adding an implant to a sliding genioplasty. Doing a split sliding genioplasty with a midline graft will make the chin wider, just not square...