What’s the difference between a recessed jaw and a recessed chin?

[KrissKross]

Are they the same?

 

[RationalBrody]

There's no such thing as a recessed jaw. But a recessed maxilla that comes with a weak jaw.

 

[qwep]

There's no such thing as a recessed jaw. But a recessed maxilla that comes with a weak jaw.

Maxilla is upper jaw

 

[KrissKross]

I meant recessed mandible vs recessed chin
MANDIBLE

 

[SplinterCel]

There's no such thing as a recessed jaw. But a recessed maxilla that comes with a weak jaw.

Wouldn't an overbite be a recessed jaw?

 

[goff2]

I meant recessed mandible vs recessed chin
MANDIBLE

Recessed mandible is a mandible who is too short for the length of the upper jaw, a reccessed chin is a weak chin, but often a recessed chin is a normal chin placed on a recessed jaw, which is too short to match the upper jaw. After so the chin is set back