Genioplasty in St. Augustine, FL

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Enhance your profile and facial balance with expert genioplasty. Subtle changes to chin position can create significant improvements in overall facial aesthetics.

Are you concerned about a weak or receding chin that affects your profile? Does your chin appear disproportionate to other facial features? At St. Augustine Oral & Facial Surgical Center, Dr. Douglas L. Johnson provides expert genioplasty procedures that can reshape and reposition your chin to create better facial balance, enhance your profile, and improve overall facial aesthetics with natural-looking results.

What Is Genioplasty?

Genioplasty is a specialized surgical procedure that reshapes or repositions the chin to improve facial proportions and balance. Unlike implants that simply add volume to the chin area, genioplasty modifies your own natural bone structure to create more harmonious facial contours. This versatile procedure can address a wide range of chin concerns, including receding chins (microgenia), overly prominent chins, chin asymmetry, and disproportionate chin width or height.

The most common technique, known as sliding genioplasty, involves making a precise cut in the lower jawbone that allows the chin segment to be moved forward, backward, upward, or downward before being secured in its new position with small plates and screws. This sophisticated approach allows for three-dimensional adjustments that create customized results tailored to your specific facial structure and aesthetic goals.

As a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Dr. Johnson has advanced training in jaw and facial bone surgery, providing the specialized expertise necessary for this precision procedure. His comprehensive understanding of facial proportions and bone structure ensures that your genioplasty results not only enhance your chin but create improved harmony with all your facial features.

Dr. Douglas L. Johnson, DMD

With over 25 years of specialized experience, Dr. Johnson provides exceptional care using the latest techniques and technology.

Dr. Johnson is a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon who completed his education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine and advanced training through fellowships at prestigious institutions. His extensive training and experience allow him to perform complex procedures with precision and care.

At our state-of-the-art facility, we prioritize your comfort and results. Dr. Johnson and his specially trained staff are committed to providing you with the highest standard of care in a welcoming environment.

What are the Benefits of Genioplasty Surgery?

Genioplasty offers remarkable advantages for facial enhancement that extend beyond simple chin improvement. The most significant benefit is the creation of improved facial balance and harmony—the chin plays a crucial role in facial proportions, and even subtle enhancements can dramatically improve your overall appearance. By bringing the chin into better proportion with other facial features, genioplasty often makes the nose appear more refined, the neck angle more defined, and the entire profile more aesthetically pleasing.

Unlike chin implants, genioplasty uses your own natural bone, eliminating concerns about implant visibility, displacement, or foreign body reactions. This approach creates permanent, stable results that become a natural part of your facial structure rather than an addition to it. The procedure also allows for precision three-dimensional adjustments in multiple directions—forward, backward, up, down, or correcting asymmetry—providing customization that simply isn’t possible with standard implants.

For many patients, improved confidence represents the most meaningful benefit of successful genioplasty. When concern about profile appearance has caused self-consciousness for years, addressing this issue can create significant improvements in social comfort and self-image. The natural-looking results enhance your appearance while still looking authentically like you, allowing you to feel more confident in both personal and professional interactions.

From a functional perspective, genioplasty sometimes provides improvements beyond aesthetics, potentially enhancing lip competence (the ability to close lips comfortably), improving the chin-to-neck angle for better airway space, and creating better support for surrounding soft tissues that can reduce the appearance of premature aging in the lower face.

Our Reviews

Why Patients Choose Us

Care and Commitment

From the front office to the exam room, our practice is made up of professionals who take your oral health very seriously. Using state-of-the-art equipment designed with safety and efficiency in mind, we are able to offer top-notch care. As you walk through our office, you will notice that everything is clean, comfortable and thoroughly sterilized. Your safety and comfort are our priority.

Honesty and Affordability

We know that the cost of care can be confusing. In addition to offering a number of in-office payment options to fit your budget, we also give you up-front cost information on your treatment ahead of time. We are in network with a variety of insurance plans, and we offer dental financing with credit available in time frames that fit your needs. We are happy to help you navigate your dental insurance and alternative payment options.

Comprehensive Oral Surgery Care in One Location

At our practice, we are qualified to handle all aspects of your oral and maxillofacial care, so you are always surrounded by people that you trust. If we must refer out, we promise to send you to carefully vetted colleagues who apply the same professional principles in their office that we do in ours.

Frequently Asked Questions

Am I a Good Candidate for Genioplasty?

Ideal candidates for genioplasty include individuals who: have a receding, weak, or disproportionate chin that affects facial balance; have realistic expectations about what chin enhancement can achieve; are in good general health without conditions that impair bone healing; do not smoke or are willing to quit before and after surgery; and have completed facial growth (typically age 18+ for females and 21+ for males). Genioplasty can address concerns that chin implants cannot, including significant chin deficiency, vertical dimension issues, chin asymmetry, or chin excess that requires reduction. During your consultation, Dr. Johnson will evaluate whether genioplasty is appropriate for your specific facial structure and aesthetic goals, or if alternative approaches might better address your concerns.

How Does Genioplasty Compare to Chin Implants?

Genioplasty and chin implants represent different approaches to chin enhancement, each with distinct advantages. Genioplasty offers several benefits over implants: it uses your own natural bone rather than foreign material; allows for three-dimensional adjustments in multiple directions rather than just forward projection; can address more significant chin deficiencies than implants can correct; eliminates concerns about implant visibility, shifting, or erosion of underlying bone; and provides permanent results without the potential need for implant replacement. While implants may offer simpler surgery with quicker initial recovery, genioplasty typically provides more comprehensive, customizable, and natural-looking results, particularly for patients with significant chin concerns or those needing vertical or width adjustments rather than simple forward projection.

Will I Have Visible Scars After Genioplasty?

No, genioplasty performed by Dr. Johnson involves incisions made entirely inside your mouth along the lower gum line, leaving no visible external scars. This intraoral approach provides complete access to the chin bone while keeping all surgical scars hidden within the mouth. The small titanium plates and screws used to secure the chin bone in its new position remain in place permanently but are not visible or typically palpable once healing is complete. This approach provides the significant advantage of leaving absolutely no visible evidence of surgery, allowing you to enjoy your enhanced profile without concerns about scarring.

Visit Us in St. Augustine

St. Augustine Oral & Facial Surgical Center is ideally situated at 1301 Plantation Island Dr. Suite #101, St. Augustine, FL 32080, making us easily accessible for patients throughout St. Augustine and surrounding communities.