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
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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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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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