Dr Sin Yong · MBBS (NUS) · MRCS (Edin) · MSc Aesthetic Medicine (London) · MSc Practical Dermatology (Cardiff) · International KOL
The chin is the anchor of the lower face. A retruded or short chin makes a balanced nose look large, deepens the fold beneath the lip, blurs the jawline into the neck and contributes to early double-chin shadowing — which is why chin correction so often improves features nobody injected. Classical profile analysis relates chin projection to the lips and nose; the assessment measures where your chin sits against that frame, in profile and head-on.
“A chin is a structural decision. Millimetres at the bone change the whole profile.”
— Dr Sin Yong
Structural chin augmentation places firmer dermal filler at the bone — projecting the pogonion forward, lengthening a short chin, or refining the transition into the jawline — in small, staged amounts. The approach favours millimetres over drama: the goal is a chin that looks grown, not added. Planning sits within the wider chin enhancement pathway, and often alongside masseter assessment where jaw width competes with chin definition, or the broader lift-first facial planning when descent is part of the picture.
Filler augments soft-tissue and simulates skeletal projection within limits; a significantly retruded chin with dental-occlusion involvement is a surgical (genioplasty) discussion, and you will be told so plainly. Hyaluronic-acid work here is adjustable and dissolvable by design — a structural trial the face can approve before anything more permanent is ever considered.
Chin augmentation with dermal fillers at Dr Sin Yong's Singapore practice is planned structurally — projection, height and lip-chin balance measured against the profile — using staged, dissolvable hyaluronic-acid placement at the bone, with honest referral where genioplasty is the realistic discussion. This information is educational and is not a substitute for a medical consultation.
Projection, height and lip-chin balance measured before any filler is planned — millimetres, staged.
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