Making a Permanent Dimple in the Chin

The boom in cosmetic surgery has ushered in the age of the “designer dimple.” In the current scenario where an increasing number of Indians are seeking cosmetic surgery, we present our technique for creation of chin dimples. We used this simple and straightforward technique in one patient. The principal steps of the technique include thinning the skin flap, creating a concave indentation in the mandibular symphysis, and obtaining an adhesion between the thinned skin flap and the indented bone. An aesthetically pleasing chin dimple was achieved. We propose that the bony contouring improves the chances of creating a permanent chin cleft or dimple. Our technique for creation of chin dimples aims to give an aesthetic and permanent result by altering the underlying contour of mandibular symphysis and achieving accurate skin coaptation with non-absorbable sutures.

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“…[1] Aragamaso,[2] Converse[3]). However, an external approach with excision of a disc of skin and/or subcutaneous tissue has also been described.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bone was resected; the overlying skin was thinned in the median raphe and fixed to the mandibular indentation with a wire through a single hole in the symphysis. [1]…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

"Dimple"-matically correct - Revisiting the technique for the creation of a chin dimple

Mokal

Desai

2012

Indian J Plast Surg

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“…Numerous surgical approaches exist for doing dimple creation, such as transcutaneous sutures or by an open technique that is performed through intraoral approach, which would show no scar formation [31]. Guerrero-Santos (1971) quotes Ivo Pitanguy (1968) who described a procedure where he thinned the skin at the site of the future dimple when a flap is separated from the median raphe while an augmentation mentoplasty is performed [32], they used it to firmly fix the implant and also creates a dimple in the midline on the chin. Pre-contoured chin implants with a midline groove or notch, although not currently available, can give a similar result.…”

Section: Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Yellow Ligament of the Chin, As Part of Retaining Ligaments of the Face: Bibliographic Review and Proposal for Terminology Change

Nuñez-Gil¹

2022

Corpus J Clin Trials

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Background: The yellow ligament of the chin or chin fat pad is poorly described in anatomic publications, is a morphological structure not very well known, but constant, its relevance in facial physiognomy is currently recognized. its anatomy, histology and function. a change of terminology is proposed according to the anatomical terminology. Methods: The study observational of the population consisted of the 10 patiens who were going to perform procedures in the chin. A bibliographic review of the yellow ligament of the chin was carried out. Results: The yellow ligament of the chin is an constant anatomical structure described in the various anatomy texts and journal articles that were evaluated, of the 10 patients observed clinically in trans-surgical procedures on the mental region, the yellow ligament of the chin was present clinically in 8 patients. Conclusions: Based on the anatomy, location and histology of the yellow ligament of the chin, and to the descriptions of the yellow ligamments to chin this must be recognized is part of the retaining ligaments of the face, a new terminology is proposed for said ligament, septum dermis osseum menti (osteocutaneous mentalis septum, in english).

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“…A conforming pressure dressing is applied for a few days. This technique avoids a skin scar and does not rely on buried suture materials inherent in other reported procedures [3,4] but rather on tissue adhesions between skin and bone.…”

Section: Static Dimplementioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic and static dimples: Early and late results

Argamaso

1981

Aesth. Plast. Surg.

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Abstract.The results of 41 surgically created facial dimples were reviewed. Observations and some long-term follow-up are presented. There is a high rate of acceptance by patients. Since the approach is intraoral, external scars are avoided. Complications are rare, and when prompt treatment is instituted, a good result is not compromised. Those patients seen for the longest time since their surgery remain pleased with their acquired dimples, which are now difficult to distinguish from those that occur naturally.

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Making a Permanent Dimple in the Chin

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"Dimple"-matically correct - Revisiting the technique for the creation of a chin dimple

"Dimple"-matically correct - Revisiting the technique for the creation of a chin dimple

The Yellow Ligament of the Chin, As Part of Retaining Ligaments of the Face: Bibliographic Review and Proposal for Terminology Change

Dynamic and static dimples: Early and late results

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