What is Mentoplasty?

Chin Implant Surgery |  Mentoplasty

Cosmetic surgery operations performed on the chin – known as mentoplasties and involving an increase or decrease in its volume depending on the case – are the ones that have grown the fastest in popularity in the United States, as indicated in the annual report. of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

The report determines that, in 2011, there was an increase in demand of up to 71% compared to the previous year, which meant the performance of 20,680 mentoplasties, aimed at improving the facial profile or defining the line of the face more aesthetically. mandible.

One of the reasons given by the ASPS to justify that this type of intervention has grown faster than liposuction, breast augmentation, or Botox injections, is that it is one of the first areas in which the signs of age.

This fact, coupled with the increasing promotion of image communications technologies, encourages many people to consider chin augmentation “as a way to restore a youthful appearance, just as it is done with a facelift or eyelid surgery”, indicate from the ASPS.

The procedure, which is demanded by all types of patients – men and women, both young and from 40-45 years old-, consists of the reduction or alteration of the bone in that area or the placement of an implant in the bone structure.

The idea is to get the jaw to appear better outlined and to make the nose look somewhat smaller. This effect allows the general shape of the face to appear more proportionate and thus more attractive a priori.

On the other hand, there are countries like the United Kingdom in which it is not treated as an isolated intervention, but as a procedure that is presented in conjunction with other types of operations such as rhinoplasty or lip augmentation.

However, the aesthetic operations that continue to be carried out in the majority are, depending on the number of cases, liposuction, breast augmentation, abdominal surgery, and eyelid surgery