R4id3nn
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27 years old. Recently lost a good amount of weight, expected the submental area to tighten up along with the rest but the underchin fat/skin is still there. Started looking into why.
Went to see a dentist for an unrelated reason and she flagged that I have a longer lower jaw relative to the upper jaw (mandibular excess vs maxilla). Bite is functionally fine, no occlusion issues. She said the profile is currently "compensated" by my nose — meaning the nose projection is visually balancing out the jaw discrepancy so it doesn't look like a severe class III from the side.
Her take: the underchin fullness might partly be a soft-tissue consequence of the skeletal setup — a longer/more forward lower jaw stretches the skin envelope differently, so fat and skin pool under the chin instead of sitting tight against a sharper jaw-neck angle, even at lower body fat.
She suggested genioplasty to correct the proportions, and mentioned rhinoplasty as an option too if I want to fully rebalance the profile once the chin is repositioned (since the nose is currently "doing work" to compensate).
Questions for the more experienced guys here:
1. Does this skeletal explanation for underchin fat track with what you've seen — i.e. jaw position affecting submental fullness independent of BF%?
2. If genio alone won't fully clear the fat/skin, has anyone paired it with submental lipo or a neck lift in the same session with good results?
3. For anyone who's done geniorhino together — worth doing simultaneously or staging them?
Attaching profile and front photos. Appreciate any input before I go further into surgical consults.
Thank you in advance
Went to see a dentist for an unrelated reason and she flagged that I have a longer lower jaw relative to the upper jaw (mandibular excess vs maxilla). Bite is functionally fine, no occlusion issues. She said the profile is currently "compensated" by my nose — meaning the nose projection is visually balancing out the jaw discrepancy so it doesn't look like a severe class III from the side.
Her take: the underchin fullness might partly be a soft-tissue consequence of the skeletal setup — a longer/more forward lower jaw stretches the skin envelope differently, so fat and skin pool under the chin instead of sitting tight against a sharper jaw-neck angle, even at lower body fat.
She suggested genioplasty to correct the proportions, and mentioned rhinoplasty as an option too if I want to fully rebalance the profile once the chin is repositioned (since the nose is currently "doing work" to compensate).
Questions for the more experienced guys here:
1. Does this skeletal explanation for underchin fat track with what you've seen — i.e. jaw position affecting submental fullness independent of BF%?
2. If genio alone won't fully clear the fat/skin, has anyone paired it with submental lipo or a neck lift in the same session with good results?
3. For anyone who's done geniorhino together — worth doing simultaneously or staging them?
Attaching profile and front photos. Appreciate any input before I go further into surgical consults.
Thank you in advance
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