Chin Filler

Chin projection has an outsized effect on how a whole face reads, and almost nobody books it as their first treatment. Patients arrive asking about their jawline, their profile, or the look of their neck, and in a meaningful share of those cases the underlying issue is a chin that sits slightly behind where the rest of the face expects it to be.

In profile, an ideal chin roughly reaches a vertical line dropped from the lower lip. When it falls short, the lower face looks shorter, the nose reads as larger by contrast, the submental area looks fuller than it is, and the jawline appears to fade rather than resolve into a point.

Adding two to four millimeters of projection changes all of that simultaneously. It is one of the few treatments where a small amount of product produces a change people notice in photographs without being able to name what changed.

We photograph you in profile and at three-quarters, because a chin problem is essentially invisible from the front. We look at chin projection relative to the lower lip, the vertical height of the lower face, the depth of the labiomental fold, and the mentalis muscle at rest.

A hyperactive mentalis — the muscle that produces a dimpled, pebbled chin when you purse — is a common finding, and treating it with a few units of neuromodulator alongside filler produces a smoother, more predictable result than filler alone.

Dental occlusion matters too. Significant retrognathia with a functional bite problem belongs with an orthodontist or maxillofacial surgeon, not a syringe. We will say so if that is what we are looking at.

We use firm, supportive products — Juvederm Voluma, Restylane Lyft, and Restylane Defyne — because the chin has to hold its shape against constant mentalis activity. A soft product here migrates and blunts.

Placement is deep, on the periosteum, at the pogonion for projection and along the lateral chin for width and shape. Whether we build forward, downward, or wider depends entirely on whether your issue is projection, vertical height, or squareness.

One millilitre is $850 ($750 for members) and covers most projection-only cases. Two millilitres is $1,700 ($1,500 for members) and saves $100 against two single syringes; that is the usual amount when we are lengthening the lower face or building genuine width.

Chin and jaw filler are functionally one contouring plan. The chin sets the anterior anchor and the jawline runs back from it; treating one and not the other frequently produces a lower face that looks unbalanced from the side.

For patients doing both, we usually start at the chin. Establishing the anterior point first tells us how much lateral jaw definition is actually needed, and it is common to need less jawline product than expected once the chin is right.

Budget-wise, a combined lower-face plan generally runs three to four syringes total across one or two visits. Staging is fine and often preferable — you get to live with the first stage before committing to the second.

Swelling is modest and usually resolves within three to five days. Bruising is possible but the injection points are few. The chin can feel firm and slightly odd to the touch for a week or two while the product integrates.

Results last 12-18 months. The chin is a low-movement area relative to the lips, but mentalis activity does gradually break product down, which is another reason we sometimes pair treatment with a small neuromodulator dose.

As with all our hyaluronic acid work, it is fully reversible with hyaluronidase if you decide the projection is not for you.