The génioplastie refers to the Cosmetic surgery Menton.
Description
The zone of the chin corresponds to the median part of the lower maxilla or mandible. It is one of the forms which gives to the face, as well as the nose or the knobs, its expression and its character. The correction of a disgracieux chin or not adapted restores the balance of the profile, the harmony of the face. The balance of the face does not answer guns like sometimes presented, but certain less strict rules whose interest is to classify various facial imbalances.
Ideally, from profile, a drawn vertical line since the most projecting part of the face must fall approximately plumb with the chin.
- If the chin is located behind this line, one says that it is reducing.
- If the chin, on the contrary, exceeds this limit, one says that it is projecting.
Precautions
The génioplastie is addressed to all those which suffer from the appearance of their chin. However, one will wait supplements it ossification of the face (to be left 18 years) to intervene. If an operation of the chin more effective would be accompanied by a
Rhinoplastie, one lavishes a Profiloplastie, combining both in harmony.