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Is a Chin Augmentation Right For You?

Your chin can play a significant part when it comes to defining your facial features and the profile of your face. When your chin is small in comparison to the rest of your facial features, those features can look over sized. A weak chin can also look as though it is receding into your neck or like it is barely there.

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How Is A Chin Augmentation Performed?

Most often, an incision is made inside the lower lip, or under the chin. An implant of the desired size and shape is then placed inside the chin. If the incision is inside the mouth, it is closed with sutures (stitches) that later dissolve. If the incision is under the chin, removable sutures are used. At the end of the surgery, the chin is often taped to minimize swelling.

Your Chin Augmentation Procedure

Safety and Comfort with Anesthesia
General anesthesia is the gold standard for this operation. Under this type of anesthesia, you are fully asleep; there is no pain and no awareness. Safety and comfort are paramount. Your anesthesia provider has a wealth of experience in facial procedures and safety. You will spend one to two hours in a fully-monitored and state-of-the art recovery room at the surgery center. Your registered nurse will be at your side every moment to attend to your safety and comfort.

Fully Staffed Recovery Room
You will spend one to two hours in a fully-monitored and state-of-the art recovery room at the surgery center. Your registered nurse will be at your side every moment to attend to your safety and comfort.

Recovery and Convalescence

You have several options for recovery: you may choose to have professional care, to stay in a recovery center, or recover at home. If you wish to recover at home, you must have someone stay with you the first night. We’ll send you home with specific care instructions, as well as information about medications that can aid healing and reduce the potential for infection, specific concerns to look for at the surgical site or in your overall health, and when to follow-up with Dr. Koplin.

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Reasons you may consider
a Chin Augmentation

  • Weak Chin
  • Excess Granular Tissue
  • Suffer From Emotional stress
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Dr. Lawrence Koplin

Attention to detail, expertise in surgical technique, and experience with reconstructive as well as cosmetic surgeries sets Dr. Koplin apart from other surgeons. For nearly 20 years, he has used these techniques to enhance the looks and self-confidence of both children and adults.

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State-of-the-Art Operating Facility

Your custom procedure will be performed in a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility associated with our medical office. We are fully accredited by Medicare and AAAASF, and are held to the same standards as an operating room in a private or university hospital.

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Your Chin Augmentation Consultation

Dr. Koplin will personally meet with you so that he understands your expectations and desired outcomes for your chin augmentation. During this initial meeting, Dr. Koplin will ask you a number of questions about your health, desires and lifestyle. He’ll go over your options, recommend a course of treatment, and explain likely outcomes of upper arm surgery.

What to Expect after Chin Augmentation:

There will some mild to moderate discomfort associated with the surgery. This can be easily controlled with oral medications. Tylenol with codeine (or equivalent if allergy to codeine exists) is generally always sufficient for pain control. Occasionally using a medication to help you sleep may be useful for the first 7 to 10 days after the surgery.

The discomfort and pain should begin to significantly decrease after 72 hours. A significant increase in pain after this period should prompt you to call the office. Severe pain is rare. If you experience this, please contact us immediately.

Bruising and swelling are to be expected after the surgery. To minimize the swelling, you should sleep with your head elevated for 3 weeks after the surgery.

It is not unusual to have some slightly blood tinged drainage for the first few days after surgery. This will most often significantly improve or disappear by the end of the first week.

Call the Office Promptly if you Notice any of the Following:

  • The operative site becomes very red in color, has purulent (containing pus)
    drainage, or is very warm to touch.
  • Development of a temperature elevation exceeding 100.0 degrees.
  • A significant increase in pain after the first 48 hours following surgery.

Case Results
Results vary for each individual.

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