Chin wing osteotomy - Revision history

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	{{Short description\|Extended mandibular-border osteotomy used for jawline shape}}		{{Short description\|Extended mandibular-border osteotomy used for jawline shape}}
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			\| image = Mandible lateral.png
			\| caption = Mandible, lateral (Commons). A chin-wing cuts a longer mandibular border than a sliding genioplasty.
			\| alt = Lateral mandible
	\| name = Chin wing osteotomy		\| name = Chin wing osteotomy
	\| also = mandibular wing osteotomy		\| also = mandibular wing osteotomy
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	This page is a description. It is not a how-to. Nerve, root, and symmetry risk is why 3D planning and a maxillofacial surgeon exist.		This page is a description. It is not a how-to. Nerve, root, and symmetry risk is why 3D planning and a maxillofacial surgeon exist.

			== Not a wraparound mill ==
			Nerve and step-off risk scale with the cut. See [[sliding genioplasty]] and [[surgical pitfalls]].

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	{{Short description\|Extended mandibular-border osteotomy used for jawline shape}}		{{Short description\|Extended mandibular-border osteotomy used for jawline shape}}
			{{Infobox term
			\| name = Chin wing osteotomy
			\| also = mandibular wing osteotomy
			\| field = Surgery
			\| origin = [[Albino Triaca]], 2009–2010
			\| related = [[Sliding genioplasty]]; [[Custom jawline implant]]
			}}
	'''Chin wing osteotomy''' (also '''mandibular wing osteotomy''') is an operation on the lower border of the mandible, described by Swiss maxillofacial surgeon [[Albino Triaca]] (Klinik Pyramide, Zürich) from 2009–2010.<ref name="triaca2010">{{cite news \|last=Triaca \|first=Albino \|title=Mandibula wing osteotomy for correction of the mandibular plane: a case report \|newspaper=British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery \|date=2010 \|access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Unlike a [[sliding genioplasty]], which only moves the chin button, a chin wing cuts a long “wing” of basal bone from the chin back toward the angles so the whole jawline border can be rotated, dropped, advanced, or widened independently of the tooth-bearing jaw and the joints.<ref name="hfm">{{cite web \|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4304429/ \|title=Chin wing osteotomy - a new facial concept \|website=Head & Face Medicine \|date=12 December 2014 \|access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref>		'''Chin wing osteotomy''' (also '''mandibular wing osteotomy''') is an operation on the lower border of the mandible, described by Swiss maxillofacial surgeon [[Albino Triaca]] (Klinik Pyramide, Zürich) from 2009–2010.<ref name="triaca2010">{{cite news \|last=Triaca \|first=Albino \|title=Mandibula wing osteotomy for correction of the mandibular plane: a case report \|newspaper=British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery \|date=2010 \|access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Unlike a [[sliding genioplasty]], which only moves the chin button, a chin wing cuts a long “wing” of basal bone from the chin back toward the angles so the whole jawline border can be rotated, dropped, advanced, or widened independently of the tooth-bearing jaw and the joints.<ref name="hfm">{{cite web \|url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4304429/ \|title=Chin wing osteotomy - a new facial concept \|website=Head & Face Medicine \|date=12 December 2014 \|access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref>

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{{Short description|Extended mandibular-border osteotomy used for jawline shape}}
'''Chin wing osteotomy''' (also '''mandibular wing osteotomy''') is an operation on the lower border of the mandible, described by Swiss maxillofacial surgeon [[Albino Triaca]] (Klinik Pyramide, Zürich) from 2009–2010.<ref name="triaca2010">{{cite news |last=Triaca |first=Albino |title=Mandibula wing osteotomy for correction of the mandibular plane: a case report |newspaper=British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery |date=2010 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> Unlike a [[sliding genioplasty]], which only moves the chin button, a chin wing cuts a long “wing” of basal bone from the chin back toward the angles so the whole jawline border can be rotated, dropped, advanced, or widened independently of the tooth-bearing jaw and the joints.<ref name="hfm">{{cite web |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4304429/ |title=Chin wing osteotomy - a new facial concept |website=Head & Face Medicine |date=12 December 2014 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref>

Looksmaxxing YouTube surgery tier lists treat chin wing as the osteotomy that can change gonial angle and ramus height without a full [[bimaxillary osteotomy|bimax]].<ref name="rorz">{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiiXLbNurvM |title=The ULTIMATE Looksmaxxing Surgery Tier List |date=17 May 2025 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> That is scene talk. The published indication is contour of the lower third — retrogenia, hyperdivergence, asymmetry — and, in later literature, masculinizing or feminizing the mandibular border.<ref name="pocket">{{cite web |url=https://pocketdentistry.com/chin-wing-osteotomy/ |title=Chin wing osteotomy |website=Pocket Dentistry |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref>

This page is a description. It is not a how-to. Nerve, root, and symmetry risk is why 3D planning and a maxillofacial surgeon exist.

== See also ==
* [[Sliding genioplasty]]
* [[Custom jawline implant]]
* [[Albino Triaca]]
* [[Bimaxillary osteotomy]]
* [[Surgical pitfalls]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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