Having an aligned jawline helps enhance your physical appearance. If you have a receding chin or small chin, your plastic surgeon can perform facial chin augmentation using a facial implant to strengthen your profile and create better facial balance. Let’s take a closer look at chin augmentation surgery and how it can improve your appearance.
Understanding the Chin Implant Surgical Procedure
Chin implant surgery is a facial plastic surgery procedure that helps improve the contours of the lower face, neck, chin, and jawline. During this facial cosmetic surgery, the facial plastic surgeon places an implant on your chin bone to change its shape and size, creating a more balanced appearance that complements the patient’s face and other features. Because implants provide a permanent solution, they are an excellent option for patients seeking long-lasting enhancement rather than temporary treatments like dermal fillers, which primarily add volume for a limited time.
The Chin Implant Surgery Procedure
This surgery is performed on an outpatient basis using local anesthesia, general anesthesia, or sedation. The surgeon makes a small incision inside the mouth or beneath the chin before creating a pocket for the implant. The procedure typically takes about one hour to complete. After the implant is securely positioned, the incision is closed with sutures and the chin is bandaged. Depending on your goals, chin augmentation may also be combined with neck liposuction, a neck lift, or other surgical procedures to address concerns such as excess fat beneath the chin and create more comprehensive facial harmony.
Why You Should Consider a Chin Enhancement
If you look in the mirror and feel self-conscious about your recessed chin and facial profile, chin implant surgery may help improve your confidence by creating stronger definition and better facial proportions. During your consultation, your surgeon will discuss your goals, review realistic expectations, and determine whether combining your procedure with additional procedures or other procedures would provide the most balanced, natural-looking outcome. Here are some of the benefits chin implant surgery can achieve.
• Corrects a recessed or weak chin
• Helps reduce full or double chin
• Improves the jaw and neckline
• Shapes the chin proportionally
What Does a Chin Implant Look Like?
A chin implant is a small solid silicone device that is customized to fit a patient’s chin bone. The implant varies in contour and size; your surgeon helps choose the size that will give you a natural look and promote enhancement. After insertion, it is difficult for other individuals to notice any augmentation since it feels and appears natural.
Recovery from Chin Implant Surgery
After the surgery, you will experience a little downtime, but you will get back to your normal activities within a week. You will experience minimal discomfort, which is controllable using analgesics. You will be required to sleep face-up with an elevated head for one or two weeks. This helps to control the post-operation swelling and quickens the healing of the incisions.
If your work or job involves strenuous activities, you may resume after 2 weeks. Also, ensure you follow all the guidelines given by the surgeon for a faster healing process and great results. After three months, the results will be final since most of the swelling will have subsided.
Since chin implants are durable, they are permanent. Even though your face gets affected by other factors such as aging, the enhanced chin will not experience any change.
Chin Implant Surgery Risks
Chin implant surgery faces very few complications when performed by our experienced surgeons. Some risks you are likely to experience include hematoma, infection, poor scarring, a shift in the position of the implant, or issues from anesthesia.
Contact Us Today
If you are planning to have chin implant surgery, consider scheduling a consultation with Drs. Papel, Kontis, and Brown at the Aesthetic Center at Woodholme. Your satisfaction is our number one priority. For more information about other plastic or cosmetic surgery services, contact us today.
Dr. Ira D. Papel is certified in Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Papel earned his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. from Boston University of Medicine. He completed a residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Papel is considered an international expert in rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, and facial aesthetic surgery.
