Anyone a chin advancement veterans? Help please.

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I've been trying for quite awhile to get some discussion going

regarding chin advancement, but to no avail. I'd like to get

experiences, suggestions, etc. from anyone who has had

effective correction of a significantly recessive chin. I know that

some people see tremendous changes in appearance because

their lower jaw advancement is significant and coupled with

genioplasty are going from total dork to model material. I had

lower advancement and genioplasty ten years ago, but have

always been disappointed with the amount of remaining

recessiveness. My jaw only needed to move 5mm and the genio

was 5mm which for most people might be a significant

correction, but for me was less than half the total needed for a

normal profile. I've lived with this " partial fix " long enough and

want a decent chin. I'm an engineer by profession (which is a

group of people seldom concerned with appearance), but also

getting into modelling (obviously concerned with appearance).

Anyway, I had a chin implant two months ago, but it is not healing

right and will undoubtedly be removed next week. Thus I have

the choices of a secondary genioplasty (yes, that is possible, I've

already talked to two different OS's on that), or a different implant

and hope it works out. One way or another, I will not give up and

stay with what I have. I've contacted the oral distraction people,

but chins are not in their line up. At this point I'm convinced that

almost no one has ever had this degree of chin recessiveness

to try to correct and I almost never have seen anyone in public

that had the recessiveness I started with...... perhaps I really am

a freak in that area. Anyway, comments, etc. will be most

welcome.

[Guest guest]

I've been trying for quite awhile to get some discussion going

regarding chin advancement, but to no avail. I'd like to get

experiences, suggestions, etc. from anyone who has had

effective correction of a significantly recessive chin. I know that

some people see tremendous changes in appearance because

their lower jaw advancement is significant and coupled with

genioplasty are going from total dork to model material. I had

lower advancement and genioplasty ten years ago, but have

always been disappointed with the amount of remaining

recessiveness. My jaw only needed to move 5mm and the genio

was 5mm which for most people might be a significant

correction, but for me was less than half the total needed for a

normal profile. I've lived with this " partial fix " long enough and

want a decent chin. I'm an engineer by profession (which is a

group of people seldom concerned with appearance), but also

getting into modelling (obviously concerned with appearance).

Anyway, I had a chin implant two months ago, but it is not healing

right and will undoubtedly be removed next week. Thus I have

the choices of a secondary genioplasty (yes, that is possible, I've

already talked to two different OS's on that), or a different implant

and hope it works out. One way or another, I will not give up and

stay with what I have. I've contacted the oral distraction people,

but chins are not in their line up. At this point I'm convinced that

almost no one has ever had this degree of chin recessiveness

to try to correct and I almost never have seen anyone in public

that had the recessiveness I started with...... perhaps I really am

a freak in that area. Anyway, comments, etc. will be most

welcome.