From A Man’s Chin To A Woman’s Chin

Probably one of the least bothered areas of plastic surgery research and procedures is gender reversal surgery and the various cosmetic surgery procedures that go into it.

During a cosmetic alteration of the face, the chin of the patient needs to be paid a lot of attention especially when transforming it from a masculine one to one with a feminine point. At times, due to congenital deformities some women feature heavy chins that are completely out of proportion with the rest of their face.

A cosmetic chin enhancement surgery can dispel these problems and rework the chin to give it a more appealing contour though. As women have a prominent but finer chin than men, doctors usually shave the bone and contour it to give it a more delicate appearance.

Male chins are known to be vertically higher and wider compared to female chins as well and doctors at times need to reposition the chin considerably.

Modifying the chin automatically affects the lips of the patient and can yield a mouth that’s far different from the original one. If you have an experienced chin surgeon you can depend on him to understand this and model your chin enhancement accordingly.

Get in touch with the Plastic Surgery Institute of California to see what your chin surgery options are.

Pete Wentz – Does He Need A Cosmetic Reduction Genioplasty?

Oh yippee yay, he’s a confirmed daddy now.

Seriously, whenever will they stop hiding pregnancies! Pete Wentz and Ashley Simpson have done practically everything in the book to monetize their romance. The only thing missing is a sex tape, and I really wouldn’t put it past them to remove one to fund the baby’s schooling.

Every time I see Wentz (help!) his chin attracts my eyes like a magnet. It really is one of the most prominent under-bites I’ve seen on anyone, except for his wife Ashley maybe.

Usually a chin like that would have someone thinking about a cosmetic chin reduction.

This chin enhancement surgery chips away the chin bone and removes the protruding edge, subsequently repositioning it. Another technique cosmetic surgeons apply involves reshaping the bone using a burr. This lends a nice contour to the chin area and is a great way to polish off the chin enhancement procedure.

The incisions are made on the inside of the mouth and if repositioning is involved in the chin surgery procedure, then metal wires and plates are used to hold the bone together.

The result of a reduction genioplasty almost always yields a very satisfactory result and is scarless. At the Plastic Surgery Institute of California the chin reduction surgery is performed in a controlled environment acclaimed as adhering to AAAHC requirements.

Put Your Fat Where Your Mouth Is With Microlipoinjections

Microlipoinjection is probably one of the best procedures till date for the delicate-faced, petite-framed and men and women with a receding chin deformity. Its an excellent chin surgery technique that gets results.

What cosmetic surgeons work upon are fat deposits from your own body which are extracted with a syringe, purified and then re-injected into the chin. Since this area does not require too much fat, the deposits can be extracted with minimum loss of volume to any specific body part.

Plastic surgeons generally use the buttocks, tummy or thigh areas for harvesting fat. Since inherent fat is easily absorbable there are repeat procedures that may be required. But this can be a good thing because fat deposits accumulate and increase with each chin surgery procedure and after a while you can let nature take over.

Also, the effects of this chin enhancement surgery technique are known to last for a maximum of three years. Three years is plenty of time to test your first chin implant surgery and see how it fits into your facial expressions.

Fat is very easily malleable and softer compared to silicone and other chin implant materials making it easier to establish the desired contours.

At the Plastic Surgery Institute of California we are well-versed in various complex chin enhancement surgery techniques. Get an appointment with our advanced surgical institute to know more.

Do You Know - What Goes Into Your Chin Implants?

Read on to know more about what goes into the chin implant size and shape selected by your plastic surgeon for a chin enhancement surgery.

Patient’s who want to insert implants into their chin to define their jawline and add volume to their faces have a range of chin implants they can chose from. Cosmetic surgeons can make use of metals like titanium but they often corrode and erode the bone.

On the other hand, polymers like polyethylene (Dacron, Medpor) and even PTFE’s like Teflon have been found to be very versatile and common.

Silicone however, remains the chin implant material of choice for many doctors due to its adaptive nature and quality. When chin or malar augmentation was first developed (1970’s), split calvarial bone, rib and iliac crest grafts were used. Later alloplastic chin implants were utilized.

The best route plastic surgeons take to predetermine the suitability of a chin implant for a particular candidate is by checking up on the medical history. Thus they can know if the specific implant will cause an allergy or if it will react adversely to the host body.

At times patients request a less invasive material like collagen, Restylane or even Botox (injectables) to be implanted into the chin. These fillers gradually get modified or get absorbed into the patient’s body calling for repeat treatments.

Get the Plastic Surgery Institute of California to help you decide which chin implant material is best suited for your chin enhancement surgery.

A Chin With Lips To Match

In a previous post I had mentioned the three different portions or ‘thirds’ of the face that plastic surgeons make use of to get a better understanding of a patient’s facial anatomy.

The features that make up the third part of the face are the mouth and the chin which are very closely related. Even more closely aligned with each other are the lips and the chin which are interconnected by muscles like the depressor muscles and the orbicularis oris muscle (the kissing muscle- it helps you pucker).

A look at the anatomy of the human mouth will give you a better idea about the physiognomy and will help you get an intimate understanding of the chin enhancement job you want.

It goes without saying that the lips are going to be affected as much by a chin enhancement surgery due to the connection between these two features. Your chin enhancement doctor will explain the manipulation required for the surgery, enough so that you get an idea.

In a chin enhancement procedure proper lip (upper and lower) competence needs to be established. Cosmetic surgeons generally attempt to maintain the lower lip as posterior to the upper lip. They also try to establish a satisfactory configuration with the soft tissue in the chin.

You don’t need to break your head too much over such details though as at the Plastic Surgery Institute of California professional cosmetic surgeons are skilled at maintaining the lip-chin harmony.

Uncover A Slender Neck With A Chin Liposuction Surgery

Read on if you are a victim of the much-dreaded double chin.

For excessive fat in the lower facial region cosmetic surgeons normally propose a sub mentum liposuction or chin liposuction procedure. One of the many contouring options available for rearranging fat in the facial area, this cosmetic surgery is a veritable blessing for those who are cursed with turkey wattles.

Have it with a chin surgery or have it as part of a face lift surgery- a submentum liposuction yields remarkable results for an outpatient cosmetic procedure. On the other hand, if you have this chin enhancement surgery independently you will be out and about in less than an hour.

The great thing about a submentum liposuction is the minimum fuss and post-surgery recovery involved.

What your cosmetic surgeon will do is use a suction device called a canula to methodically attack small areas of fat in the chin area. But rather than getting rid of all the fat he will sculpt what’s already present into the desired contour and simply suction off the rest of it.

Based on the extent of the chin enhancement work required to be executed in the area, the chin surgeon will implement the intraoral technique or a transdermal incision. In both cases the wounds are hidden well out of sight removing any concerns about visible scars.

Get in touch with the first-rate chin surgery consultants at the Plastic Surgery Institute of California today for a complete facial diagnosis.

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The Wildenstein Chin Implant – Where It Goes Wrong

If you have kept track of the plastic surgery disasters some notorious celebrities and socialites have had, you must have noticed New York socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein prominently on that list.

Jocelyn, in her quest for eternal youth and ravishing beauty has become something of an odd-job. One glance at her and you can barely call her human.

Her face has been a canvas for whichever cosmetic surgeon she consults, with almost every cosmetic surgery procedure applied on it. Eyelid surgery, a face lift, cheek implants, a nose surgery that’s given her a tiny nose, lip augmentation, chin enhancement surgery using chin implants and assorted fillers seem to vie for attention on her face.

What stands out however, are her chin, cheeks and the overall bloated appearance of her face. It makes you wonder what kind of a plastic surgeon would be so incompetent as to not know when he needs to stop.

For one, Wildenstein’s surgeon makes a big mistake in the chin implant that’s inserted into her chin. It is common knowledge among cosmetic face surgeons to stick to a smaller chin implant where feminine chin surgery is concerned.

Chin enhancement surgery is not a procedure that can be passed off as trivial as it involves altering one of the three most defining factors in the human face. A plastic surgeon who understands his patient’s facial features intimately is the one you should select for your surgery.

Get help from the Plastic Surgery Institute of California.