How Can I Balance My Chin With My Nose?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I would like to balance my chin with my nose but still look feminine and enhance my jawline.

A: hank you for your inquiry and sending your pictures. As you know, you have a tremendously short chin due to a significantunder development of the lower jaw. Short of major jaw,\ advancement surgery, of which I assume may not be of interest to you, then addressing what we can for the chin area would be the appropriate choice. You clearly need a sliding genioplasty to move the chin bone out as much as possible. While your chin deficiency is probably in the 25 to 30 mm range you likely would only achieve about half that amount with the sliding genioplasty. But given where you started, that amount of change may be more appealing to you than even if it was possible to move the bone out to a so-called normal position. You would likely see normalizing the chin bone position as excessive, particularly as a female. The sliding genioplasty would benefit by submental liposuction to optimize the lower facial improvement. To help you visually understand what that potential change may be I have attached some prediction imaging of that approximate result of the two procedures.

Dr Barry Eppley

Plastic Surgeon