| 摘要 |
A method of applying a chin implant to a human, the method including the steps of positioning a resilient preformed chin implant against an area of the chin to be enhanced, the implant having an interior radius having a curvature slightly smaller than the opposing radius of the curvature of the area of the chin which is to receive the implant. As a second step, a mounting pin bore is drilled through the implant and into the periostium of the area of the chin at an outward angulation of about thirty degrees relative to a front-to-rear vertical medial plane of the face and, concurrently, at a downward angulation of about thirty degrees relative to a front-to-horizontal plane of the face taken through the area of the chin to be enhanced. A third step is defined by drilling through the implant and into the periostium a mounting pin bore having, about the front-to-rear vertical median plane, a mirror symmetry to the drilled hole described above. As a final step, there is securably inserted, through the bores, respective mounting pins which penetrate into the periostium to a depth of between two and five millimeters. Due to the difference in the radii of curvature of the inner surface of the implant and the opposing area of the chin, the two mounting pins will secure the implant at a substantially crescent-shaped offset from the chin.
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