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CHIN SURGERY

Your chin surgery, also known as mentoplasty, is a surgical procedure to reshape the chin either by enhancement with an implant or reduction surgery on the bone. Many times a plastic surgeon may recommend chin surgery to a patient having nose surgery in order to achieve facial proportion, as the size of the chin may magnify or minimize the perceived size of the nose. Your chin surgery in Argentina will help provide a harmonious balance to your facial features so that you feel better about the way you look.

Post operation
• After your chin surgery, you will experience some discomfort and swelling in the affected area for several days.
• It's normal to experience some temporary difficulty with smiling and talking after chin implants. Black and blue marks may be visible around the chin and neck.
• Your plastic surgeon will instruct you about dental hygiene, eating and any restrictions to your activities after surgery.

What is the time to recovery?
• Make-up: May be worn after surgery.
oPresentable in public: You will be presentable in one to two weeks.
• Work: You may feel capable of returning within 2-5 days, but your appearance will be the limiting factor.
• Exercise: May be resumed in 2 weeks after your chin implants in Argentina.
• Final result: Will be seen between one and two months

What does Chin Implant surgery do?
• It makes the chin more prominent. It is considered beautiful when, seen from the side, the chin and the lower lip are vertically aligned.
• It balances the relationship between the chin and the nose, as regards size and outline. This is why this surgery is usually performed together with a rhinoplasty.
• It can give the chin a more masculine or feminine look, according to the standards of proportion and harmony prescribed for each sex.

What does Chin Implant surgery NOT do?
• It does not correct retrognathism (when the lower mandible is retracted and causes chewing problems; this must be corrected with orthodontics and/or orthognatic surgery).
• It does not correct micrognathia (when the lower mandible is too small and causes chewing problems; this must be corrected with orthodontics and/or orthognatic surgery).
• Even though it will make your face look more beautiful and harmonious, and it will probably also improve your self-esteem, it will not be enough to make you look perfect. We must be realistic and accept that that kind of perfection does not exist.

How is a Chin Implant surgery performed?
Anesthesia
Local anesthesia and complementary sedation, or general anesthesia.

Surgery length
Between 30 minutes and 1 hour.

What does chin implant surgery consist of?
The surgeon makes an internal pocket right in front of the chin bone and inserts the implant. In order to do this, there are two possible incisions: a) under the chin, b) inside the lower lip, that is, inside the mouth.

Hospitalization
There is no need to be hospitalized, it is done on an outpatient basis.

Results
The results of a chin implant surgery are permanent, but completely reversible if you wish to look as you looked before the surgery. However, very few people feel unhappy with the results.

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