26 year-old male from Michigan. Would a sliding genioplasty help to fix my double chin? If so, what is the average cost? (Photo)

For your double chin a sliding genioplasty would certainly be a more helpful chin augmentation technqiue than a chin implant as it stretches out the neck tissues in the submental area. If combined with a submentoplasty to remove fat both above and below the plastysmal muscle with muscle tightening, you will get the best result possible short of a more complete neck lift.

The photographs demonstrate a weak chin profile and fatty deposits in the neck. The week chin profile is due to underdevelopment of the bony mandible, for which a chin implant can give added projection to the chin to improve facial balance and proportions. The fatty deposits in the neck are located above and  below the platysma muscle, so a neck lift is required to remove those fatty deposits. A platysma-plasty is also performed at the same time give a better jaw and neck line definition. A chin implant and neck lift is performed under a brief general anesthetic as an outpatient surgical procedure. A sliding genioplasty involves making cuts in the mandible bone and setting it forward with plates and screws, and this performed as an inpatient procedure a hospital with an overnight stay by an oral surgeon. A sliding genioplasty will not have any effect on the fatty deposits in the neck.