title: Chin shield osteotomy--a new genioplasty technique avoiding a deep mento-labial fold in order to increase the labial competence.
abstract: The authors report a genioplasty technique in which the advancement of an anterior mandibular segment is executed with a specific osteotomy form that helps to avoid a deep mentolabial fold and improves labial competence. The osteotomy presented achieves this by creating a 'chin shield' where the mandibular segment advanced is relatively high on the side of the buccal cortex and lower on the lingual side and where the osteotomy or down-fracture in between is in an oblique angle in the sagittal plane.
authors.affiliation: Center for Maxillofacial Surgery, Pyramide Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland. albino.triaca@swissonline.ch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Triaca
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furrer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Minoretti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002680:Chin / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000503:physiopathology; D019186:Mandibular Advancement / Q000379:methods*; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D019857:Osteogenesis, Distraction; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D063173:Retrognathia / Q000601:surgery*