Golf ball chin; strange plastic surgery procedure

Unwanted lumps, bumps and dimples don’t just happen on your hips and thighs. Some people get dimpling – or cobblestoning -- on their chin. So many, in fact, the condition has a name (well, several names): golf ball chin, pebbled chin, apple dumpling chin and the rather elegant “peau d’orange chin.”


Not surprisingly, there’s also a way to get rid of it. “Golf ball chin happens when people have been wrinkling their chin as a habit for years,” says Dr. Joel Schlessinger, who’s treated about 250 men and women for the condition over the years. “It gets dimpled like a golf ball. But we can decrease or eliminate it with a couple of well-placed injections of Botox or Dysport.”

When performed correctly (it’s a tricky procedure, and if performed wrong, you could end up with a droopy lip), the injections smooth out the dimpling for about three months, says Schlessinger. Cost for the procedure is around $150 and patients may only need a one-time injection. “The beauty of the treatment is that it doesn’t allow patients to wrinkle their chin for thee months,” he says. “It’s like splinting a broken arm. By the end of that time, they may have broken their habit.”