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title: "Chin Implants"
url: https://drturner.com.au/procedures/face/chin-implants/
date: 2025-04-17
modified: 2026-07-03
author: "Dr Scott J Turner"
description: "Chin implants, also called chin augmentation or mentoplasty, use a shaped implant placed over the lower jawbone to improve chin projection and lower-face balance. In suitable patients, the procedure can..."
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# Chin Implants

Chin implants, also called chin augmentation or mentoplasty, use a shaped implant placed over the lower jawbone to improve chin projection and lower-face balance. In suitable patients, the procedure can sharpen the appearance of the jawline and the angle between chin and neck by improving the underlying skeletal support. It is a different operation from neck liposuction, which removes superficial submental fat, and from neck lift surgery, which addresses skin, platysma muscle, or deeper neck structures. When the issue is chin projection, an implant treats the cause directly. When the issue is fat or loose skin, an implant alone is not the right answer.

Dr Scott J Turner is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) practising from Bondi Junction and Manly in Sydney. He performs chin implant surgery for patients whose chin projection is the dominant aesthetic concern, and recommends a different or combined procedure where the broader anatomy calls for one. This page explains what chin implants do and do not address, the difference between an implant and sliding genioplasty, who is suitable, what surgery and recovery involve, and how chin augmentation fits with neck and facial harmony.