Mentoplasty or Chin Surgery is a type of surgery done to reshape the chin. This surgery may be conducted by either plastic surgeons or maxillofacial surgeons.
Chin surgery may be conducted to improve your facial appearance. Your surgeon may suggest additional procedures like rhinoplasty in order to help better achieve facial proportions.
During reduction, your jawbone can be removed or moved forward to improve the harmony of facial features.
Alternatively, implants may be used to enlarge, reshape or push the appearance of the chin forward.
Types of Chin Surgery.
There are two ways chin surgery can be conducted.
- Chin implants
- Sliding genioplasty.
1. Chin implants.
Chin implants are used during mentoplasty to improve the appearance of your chin. During surgery, your surgeon makes an incision on your chin where he places the implant.
Your surgeon will then close the incision using fine sutures.
2. Sliding genioplasty.
During genioplasty surgery, the surgeon cuts your lower jawbone using a saw from inside your mouth.
He then moves it to the desired location and permanently fixes it using metal plates and screws.
The sliding genioplasty surgery can be very complex. This will depend on the extent of the surgery.
How much does a Chin Surgery cost?
The cost of a chin surgery varies from one practice to another. There are a number of factors that impact the price of mentoplasty.
Below are some of the factors that can impact the price:
- Your location
- The complexity of your surgery
- Your surgeon
- Type of implant
However, according to different patient price reviews, the average cost of a chin surgery is $8,500.
What are the risks and complications involved with chin surgery?
There are very minimal risks and complications involved with mentoplasty if you go to a well-experienced surgeon. However, just like any other surgery, we can’t rule out that there are no risks involved completely.
Some of a few risks and complications you may get include:
- Infection
- Erosion of the bone and damage of the dental roots.
- Excess bleeding
- Nerve damage
- Extrusion of an implant.
Conclusion.
Out of several mentoplasty surgeries conducted across the world, most of them are successful.
A good number of people who have gone through the surgery are pleased with the results and accept their new looks.
This has seen many of them improve their self-esteem because of the augmented chin which reconstructs their appearance.
