Patient education
Genioplasty: Guides
Twelve guides to the bone operation on the chin. They assume you have already read what chin augmentation is; what they add is what changes when your own bone is cut, moved and held, and what that costs in sensation, hardware and time.
All guides
12 guides
- What a Genioplasty Is: Cutting and Refixing Your Own Chin BoneOverview
- The Cut in the Bone: How a Sliding Genioplasty Changes the ChinPlanning
- Lengthening and Shortening a Chin: The Change a Device Cannot MakeScope
- An Off-Centre Chin: Correcting Asymmetry by Moving BoneAsymmetry
- The Chin Pad Follows the Bone: How the Soft Tissue RespondsSoft tissue
- The Mental Nerve: Numbness of the Lower Lip and Chin After GenioplastyRisks
- Plates and Screws: What Stays in Your Jaw AfterwardsHardware
- Planning the Cut: Imaging, Models and Where the Nerve Canal RunsPreparation
- Genioplasty Inside a Jaw Surgery Plan: Who Operates, and in What OrderSequencing
- The Labiomental Fold: The Crease That Changes How a Chin ReadsResult
- A Second Cut on the Same Bone: What Revision Genioplasty InvolvesRevision
- What Settles After Genioplasty, and What Does NotRecovery
Settle the direction of the cut before the operation
Arrange an assessment. Imaging of your jaw, the path of the nerve and the way your teeth meet decide whether the bone is the right target, and what a cut could and could not change for you.