Linoob
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I just don't want this happening to anyone else. I've suffered enough with it.
Approx. 6 months ago some might remember I had a basic silicone chin implant procedure.
Straight-forward procedure with minimal risk right? Wrong.
You might know there's two ways a chin implant can be inserted. Inside your mouth or a small incision under your chin.
I followed my surgeons advice and let him insert inside the mouth, as it leaves no scar and he was super confident with this approach.
What I should have known:
In order to do this, the surgeon literally needs to slice through your mentalis muscle to gain access. The muscle that essentially keeps the fat pad nice and taut over your chin and also indirectly keeps your lower lip elevated.
It's imperative that if a surgeon goes in this way that the muscle / soft tissue is re-approximated and put together with exact precision and technique, else you end up with ptosis (sagging) of your chin along with de-elevation of your lower lip. Something that looks horrible and is only associated with old, unfit people.
Some people are can also posses a chin like this due to genetics.
It looks like this on the left in extreme cases:
A strong / healthy mentalis muscle results in nice elevated/forward projection chin like this:
The real problem:
If they fuck up the open / closure of your mouth in such a way that it results in ptosis or mentalis dysfunction, it can be extremely hard to correct and only very few surgeons in the world are able to permanently fix it. (Eppley, Yaremchuck, etc).
The muscle is very thin and if your surgeon butchers it enough it can never be repaired again resulting in a near-permanent state of the above.
Take aways:
A nice, aesthetic chin is not just as simple as bone. It's a comination of muscle and fat, and it must suspended correctly.
If you're going to get a chin implant done, avoid intra-oral approach / fucking with your mouth at all cost.
If you're getting jaw surgery / genioplasty etc. You better make damn fucking sure your surgeon knows what he's doing because you could fuck yourself quite severely only to end up in the hands of someone much better anyway.
Anyway, only sharing you guys because I wouldn't want you to fork out thousands of dollars, time, energy, only to end up in a similar boat to me.
We all have a beautiful image in our head of how our procedure will go, but never truly acknowledge the possibility of walking out worse, both impacting you financially and mentally.
Research is KING.
My case is nowhere near as bad as the above, but my chin is worse than what is was pre-surgery, thus my looksmaxing progress has gone backwards.
Peace.
Approx. 6 months ago some might remember I had a basic silicone chin implant procedure.
Straight-forward procedure with minimal risk right? Wrong.
You might know there's two ways a chin implant can be inserted. Inside your mouth or a small incision under your chin.
I followed my surgeons advice and let him insert inside the mouth, as it leaves no scar and he was super confident with this approach.
What I should have known:
In order to do this, the surgeon literally needs to slice through your mentalis muscle to gain access. The muscle that essentially keeps the fat pad nice and taut over your chin and also indirectly keeps your lower lip elevated.
It's imperative that if a surgeon goes in this way that the muscle / soft tissue is re-approximated and put together with exact precision and technique, else you end up with ptosis (sagging) of your chin along with de-elevation of your lower lip. Something that looks horrible and is only associated with old, unfit people.
Some people are can also posses a chin like this due to genetics.
It looks like this on the left in extreme cases:
A strong / healthy mentalis muscle results in nice elevated/forward projection chin like this:
The real problem:
If they fuck up the open / closure of your mouth in such a way that it results in ptosis or mentalis dysfunction, it can be extremely hard to correct and only very few surgeons in the world are able to permanently fix it. (Eppley, Yaremchuck, etc).
The muscle is very thin and if your surgeon butchers it enough it can never be repaired again resulting in a near-permanent state of the above.
Take aways:
A nice, aesthetic chin is not just as simple as bone. It's a comination of muscle and fat, and it must suspended correctly.
If you're going to get a chin implant done, avoid intra-oral approach / fucking with your mouth at all cost.
If you're getting jaw surgery / genioplasty etc. You better make damn fucking sure your surgeon knows what he's doing because you could fuck yourself quite severely only to end up in the hands of someone much better anyway.
Anyway, only sharing you guys because I wouldn't want you to fork out thousands of dollars, time, energy, only to end up in a similar boat to me.
We all have a beautiful image in our head of how our procedure will go, but never truly acknowledge the possibility of walking out worse, both impacting you financially and mentally.
Research is KING.
My case is nowhere near as bad as the above, but my chin is worse than what is was pre-surgery, thus my looksmaxing progress has gone backwards.
Peace.
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