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What is in your opinion the best technique for genioplasty?Never thought about it in terms of lift, but I think any advancement of the hyoid bone would lift it, because of the biomechanics of all the muscles there. I don't know of any procedure designed to lift the bone in an isolated way, without advancing it.
This list includes procedures such as genioglossus advancement, genioplasties with a high osteotomy that includes the genial tubercules (the insertion points of some muscles) and also movements produced in BSSO with forward movement, IMDO (and mandibular rami distraction technique, by means of autorrotation).... not forgetting Le Fort with impaction, also by means of autorrotation of the mandible.
We could say that forward movement equals hyoid lift.