by Bellevue | Seattle’s Dr. Philip Young | Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery:
This is a question that I answered for a patient that had a chin implant placed by another surgeon. She wanted it removed because after undergoing submental liposuction, her chin looked to long and round.
Removing a chin implant usually requires placing a smaller chin implant to prevent balling up of your chin. Most of the time unless your chin implant is very small like 3mm, you will need to place a smaller chin implant. This is important because without something smaller, the stretched pocket / tissues / skin will contract over this empty space. The very possible potential result is a “balling up” effect which can make your chin look like a ball with a protuberance that you will not like. The healing of replacing a smaller implant usually is fairly quick with most of the swelling and bruising gone in a week.
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Dr Young specializes in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington