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A Fatty Flap Taken From the Double Chin for Chin Enhancement: a New Surgical Technique

NCT05515016 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2022-08-25

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Summary

The double chin is a troublesome component of the lower third of the face. It gives an embarrassing and unpleasant facial appearance to both men and women leading them to ask for liposuction. Moreover, a "receding chin" causes blunting of the cervico-mental angle, a fleshy appearing neck, a disproportion in the profile line of the face with a prominent looking nose, and an irregular mandibular border. This study is about an innovative surgical procedure: Instead of doing liposuction of the double chin, the investigators used the fat of this area as a flap to improve a "receding chin". hence both the double chin and the receding chin are treated.

Conditions

  • Adiposity
  • Micrognathism

Interventions

PROCEDURE

chin enhancement with a fatty flap sculpted from the double chin

Under general anesthesia, an incision was made behind the submental crease followed by the excision of the skin excess. The preplatysmal fatty compartment was individualized through a subcutaneous dissection. Then, the lower part of the preplatysmal fat was cut to start its separation from the platysma muscle, thus obtaining a real vascularized fatty flap. This flap could be folded on itself, then easily turned over to be fixed on the muscular layer of the chin.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mohamed Tahar Maamouri University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • IMEN T MEHRI TURKI, Dr · Teaching hospital Mohamed Tahar Maamouri, nabeul

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
52 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-07-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2019-10-31

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