Dr.Lee column - Various type of jaw reduction procedures

Topic - Various type of jaw reduction procedures

There are various type of jaw reduction procedures to reduce mandible.

First. T-shape osteotomy

To narrow chin-tip, it is required to undergo chin surgery such as T-osteotomy and sandwich osteotomy. Patient who has wide,long,short,square chin-tip choose those procedure to make narrow chin-tip.
Procedure is that cut a bone in to T shape (shown above picture) and removed the middle portion.

Second. Jaw reduction + T-shape osteotomy

Patient who consider about mandible & chin-tip reduction choose the procedure.
The most general procedure and many patient choose the procedure, but it is required long recovery period because surgeon need to cut many bone and it is caused huge damage on surgical area.

Third. Jaw reduction thorugh Long curve osteotomy 

Through the procedure, it is possible to correct both square jaw and chin at once without T-osteotomy and fixation for creating V-Line without further surgery on the chin tip. The procedure is the most simple, so it is required short recovery period rather than other procedure, also most patient happy with result as well.

Of course, there is no exact answer for facial contouring. Each of procedure is good procedure.
However, patient need to discuss with doctor which procedure is suitable.