Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Floor Disorders, Department of Subspecialty Care for Women's Health, Women's Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. Electronic address: wallacs8@ccf.org.
Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and reconstructive Surgery Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, 250 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: Christina.LewickyGaupp@nm.org.
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Gyn/Ob Clinic, 1365 Clifton Road, Bldg A, 4th Floor, Attention Daphne Blow, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: Linder.Brian@mayo.edu.
Urogynecology/Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (Urogynecology), Women's Health Institute, Cleveland, Ohio.
Department of Surgery, Stanford Pelvic Health Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Chin augmentation has maintained a high level of popularity among patients and facial plastic surgeons. Several procedures exist to enhance the appearance of a small chin. The aim of this study was to...
MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), and Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) databases were screened using a search algorithm. The techniques were classified, and related outcom...
A total of 54 studies on primary chin augmentation published from 1977 to 2020 met inclusion criteria, representing 4897 treated patients. Six main surgical techniques were identified: chin augmentati...
All described chin augmentation techniques achieved good outcomes with high patient satisfaction. Thorough knowledge of each technique is essential to minimize each procedure's specific complications....
The chin is important for facial appearance, affecting overall balance and harmony of the face. The purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of the hyaluronic acid filler Restylane Defyne f...
Male and female subjects, aged 22 years or older, with mild to moderate chin retrusion, were randomized 3:1 to the hyaluronic acid filler Restylane Defyne ( n = 107) or no treatment ( n = 33). Assessm...
Galderma Chin Retrusion Scale responder rate (≥1 grade improvement) was higher for the hyaluronic acid filler Restylane Defyne (81 percent) than for control (6 percent) ( p < 0.001) at week 12, and re...
The hyaluronic acid filler Restylane Defyne was safe and effective for augmentation of the chin region to improve the chin profile and associated with high aesthetic improvement and subject satisfacti...
Therapeutic, II....
Microgenia, or a recessed/weak chin, plays a significant role in facial disharmony. Although patients with severe microgenia, malocclusion, long-face syndrome, or other significant orthognathic proble...
Genioplasty is commonly performed as part of facial feminization surgery. Commonly addressed areas in facial feminization surgery include the chin. According to some authors, 100% of patients request ...
The facial skeleton is foundational for facial aesthetics. The authors describe an alternative technique for cosmetic chin augmentation that does not require alloplastic implants, osseous genioplasty,...
Therapeutic, IV....
Several genioplasty techniques can narrow the width of the chin. Nevertheless, patients with a broad and short chin who received these methods were unsatisfied with the outcomes. The goal of this stud...
Thirty-eight patients with broad, flat and short chins were included in this study from January 2019 to December 2021. The preoperative design was performed individually according to the data of the c...
The vertical lengthening of the chin was 2-5 mm, with an average of 3.02 mm. The horizontal narrowing width was 3-6 mm, with an average of 5.6 mm. FACE-Q scores in satisfaction with the chin increased...
The modified M-shaped genioplasty preserved the bone structure in the midsymphyseal area and suprahyoid muscular attachments as far as possible, and the bone segments may be repositioned quickly. This...
This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Inst...
Alloplastic implantation has become a popular method of chin augmentation. Historically, silicone was the most commonly used implant, but porous materials have grown in favor due to improved fibrovasc...
The PubMed® database was queried on March 14, 2021. We selected studies reporting data on alloplastic chin augmentation excluding additional procedures such as osseous genioplasty, fat grafting, autol...
Among the 39 articles analyzed, the year of publication ranged from 1982 to 2020; additionally, 31 were retrospective case series, 5 were retrospective cohort or comparative studies, 2 were case repor...
Silicone, HDPE, and ePTFE had low overall complication rates, demonstrating an acceptable safety profile regardless of implant selection. Surgical approach was found to significantly influence complic...
To manage severe angular chin-on-chest deformity....
A single midline incision and periosteal dissection were utilized to expose from C2 to T6. Bilateral C2 pars screws, C3 to C7 lateral mass screws, and T1 to T6 pedicle screws were placed. Following th...
In this patient with osteopenia, a known nickel allergy, and significant cervical imbalance, the Candy Cane construct allowed for a durable correction of the severe sagittal and coronal plane deformit...
A one-stage, posterior approach along with construct augmentation, with a third rod hooked into a supplementary C2 translaminar screw, can be employed for the correction of chin-on-chest kyphoscoliosi...
Numb chin syndrome (NCS) is a rare sensory neuropathy involving the mental nerve. Symptoms of NCS are often overlooked because of their apparent innocent nature; however, owing to the frequent associa...
A search in PubMed (MEDLINE) and the Cochrane Library was performed using the terms numb chin syndrome, numb chin, mental neuropathy, mental nerve neuropathy, and malignant mental nerve neuropathy, yi...
NCS was associated with malignancy in 29% through 53% of the published cases. Twenty-eight percent of patients initially consulted an oral health care professional with the symptom of a numb chin. Pat...
Oral health care professionals should be aware of the characteristics of NCS as they may be the first health care providers consulted for these symptoms....
A thorough medical and dental history as well as a complete cranial nerve screening should be performed on all patients, especially those with numbness, as this may prevent misdiagnosis and allow a ti...
Nonsurgical chin augmentation using hyaluronic acid (HA) has become a common procedure in cosmetic practices. This is offered to patients that prefer a nonsurgical, temporary method to correcting unde...
A systematic review was performed according to PRISMA guidelines. PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science were searched using the appropriate keywords. Data collected from each study included patient satis...
A total of 1305 studies were found based on search criteria. After full-text screening for inclusion and exclusion criteria, 8 studies were included. A total of 917 patients underwent HA chin augmenta...
HA filler is an effective temporary method to correct chin retraction and absorption for chin augmentation, with a high degree of patient satisfaction and a low risk of severe complications....
This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Inst...
