Will Chin and Jaw Reduction Make My Face More Square?

Q: Dr. Eppley, I want to reduce the jaws and chin and expose the face with Malar Shell filling to make the face square.

A:The procedure that you have described, specifically chin and jaw reduction, is not going to help make your face more square. You can never do a reduction procedure to get that type of shape change. The excess overlying soft tissue is not going to shrink down to any type of reduced bone shape to establish more definition. Making the face more square requires an augmentation approach not a reductive one. For the cheek area you have the correct surmised that a augmentation approach is best but it is not going to be achived with a malar shell implant. You have a very significant negative orbital vector which requires custom infraorbital-malar implants to make an effective midface augmentation change.

Dr. Barry Eppley

Plastic Surgeon