Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun I surgery, the operation of restoring the chin.
  • noun Operative restoration of a portion of the cheek which is lacking.

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  • noun mentoplasty

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Examples

  • Just a nervous breakdown from four years of mornings with triplets, afternoons operating on patients who were still whining that the cost of genioplasty should include a freebie chin cleft even as they were going under anesthesia.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Just a nervous breakdown from four years of mornings with triplets, afternoons operating on patients who were still whining that the cost of genioplasty should include a freebie chin cleft even as they were going under anesthesia.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

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