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Chin reshaping through implants or reduction can change your appearance dramatically for the better

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Chin Implant Reshaping/ chin shaping / chin implants / chin augmentation can have a significant impact on the way you look.  There are inter relationships between your chin, your face, and your nose.  Through my theories and studies on facial beauty, the end of your chin and the distance from this point to the center of the lower lip should be about the same distance from your lower lip to your nasal tip.  It should also be the same distance from your nasal tip to the level of the center of your eyes.  All of these distances are ideally equal to the distance from the center of your iris to the middle of your face.  I have found that distance to be ideally 3 iris widths in length.  At the bottom of the chin, the width that it conveys to a person should really be at most 3 iris widths.  But the highlights around the mouth area should be an area that is 3 iris widths radius centered at the lower lip.  This circular area should touch the nasal tip, the lower chin and the nasolabial folds.

On a less techinical side, a chin implant can be placed to make your nose look less prominent.  Prior to having a chin implant, your nose may appear that you would need to make it smaller through a rhinoplasty. But  after a chin implant, you would likely need to do much less reduction and may not even need to reduce the nose in anyway.  This same principle applies to different parts of the nose such as the nasal tip, nasal bridge and whole side profile of the nose.

How would you know whether you need a chin implant.  If you take a picture of a side view of your face, you can determine whether your chin is small or large.  This picture should be taken with the inferior eye bone ridge level with the top of the ear canal.  This is called the frankfort horizontal.  A line drawn through the anterior part of the lower lip, perpendicular to this horizontal plane, the chin should be 1-2 mm behind this line.  If it is more posterior a chin implant could help. If it is more a chin reduction procedure could help. Here is a video on chin reduction for you to see.

Another method is by drawing a line from the half way point from the deepest part of your nasal bridge between your eyes to the nasal tip.  From this halfway point through the anterior upper and lower lips, your chin should be about 3-4mm behind this line. If is posterior to this a chin implant could improve the profile. If it is anterior, a chin reduction could help.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Looking for a non surgical way to make the double chin go away or improve it

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

There are many options such as losing weight. This can reduce the fatty deposits in your neck. However, depending on someone’s age, some of the double chin can be due to the muscles relaxing.

You have a neck muscle called the platysma that covers your neck from your chest to your face. This muscle during youth is tightly adherent to the underlying neck structures. When you age, the muscle eventually comes away from the neck’s deeper structures, contributing to the neck laxity and double chin appearance.

The main way to improve this is to do a null along with a lower facelift. Liposuction is a very minimally invasive technique to slim down the neck and tighten the skin as well. But sometimes, the results you get with liposuction is limited, and more advanced techniques are needed to make your neck more shapely.

Augmentation of your chin can help create a greater disparity between your face, chin and neck region. Facial Implants can help improve the angles of your chin with your neck. Other options that are less invasive include volumizing your lower face. This can have a tremendous impact on pulling the loose tissues up towards the area under your chin and also create more of a covering effect for the contents below your jawline.

The other way of improving this laxity is to use lasers to tighten the skin.  Laser Resurfacingombined can have significant tightening effects.  This can be done without making incisions and with lower downtime compared with traditional co2 laser resurfacing procedures.

Dr Young is located in Bellevue near Seattle, Washington

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Chin Implant or Genioplasty?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

I discovered a new theory on facial beauty called the Circles of Prominence.  Based on this theory, the bottom of your chin should be about three iris widths in height from the center of your lower lip to the bottom of the chin.  This is ideal in a female.

But for males, this distance can be larger. Males are distinguished significantly by the appearance of their jaws or lower third of the face.

Also the prominence at the bottom of the chin should be about 3 iris widths in width but in men can be larger.  The larger the chin the more masculine.  If you were to draw a circle 3 iris widths centered at the center of the lower lip, you will delineate the area that should stand out in your mouth area from the rest of the face.

Depending on these parameters, I would decide if you would need a chin implant or a genioplasty.  Generally if the vertical height that you are wishing to increase in your chin is greater than 3-4 mm you will be better off with a genioplasty instead of a chin implant.

Your jaw can also be augmented with a lateral jaw implant depending on what you look like and this can be done inside your mouth without external incisions.  This lateral jaw implant can be used to widen the lower jaw area.

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