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Serra

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Burring or shaving the chin -- degloving?
« on: September 01, 2015, 09:10:15 AM »
When a surgeon shaves down the chin instead of, or in addition to, doing an osteotomy, my understanding is that the mentalis muscle is stripped from the bone in order to do it and this has soft tissue consequences. Does anyone know of any cases of chin burring/shaving? How did they turn out?

Apparently degloving should not be done but it seems a lot of surgeons do it.