Category: chin implants

Technical Strategies – Minimal Incision Approach for Silicone Chin Implants

Chin implants can be placed through two types of anterior lower facial incisions. The ‘northern’ option is to place it from above using an intraoral vestibular incision behind the upper lip. The ‘southern’ option is to place it from below using a submental skin incision. Both approaches access the chin bone and both incise through Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Jaw Angle Implants After A Chin Implant For A Complete Jawline Augmentation Effect

Background: Chin implants are the most common type of surgical facial augmentation. They can be performed as a solitary procedure but are equally done as part of other aesthetic facial changes as well. In mild cases of microgenia (small chin) augmentation of the front end of the lower jaw produces a completely satisfying result. But Read More…

Anatomy and Technique of Skull Bump and Osteoma Removal

There are many different types of aesthetic skull reshaping surgery ranging from minor deformities to major augmentations and reduction. The most minor form of skull reshaping is reduction of a bump or high spot. Often mistakenly call osteomas, skull bumps are usually developmental and have no history of trauma. While most commonly occurring in isolation, Read More…

OR Snapshots – Nostril Narrowing in Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty surgery almost exclusively revolves around manipulation of its osteocartilaginous support framework. It is a true facial reshaping procedure whose result ultimately depends on the combination of how the support structure is altered and how the overlying skin shrinks down around it to reveal those changes. The one exception in rhinoplasty in which bone and Read More…

Plastic Surgery case Study – Placement of Extensive Custom Forehead-Brow Bone-Infraorbital-Malar-Premaxillary-Paranasal Implants Using A Geometric Connection Design

Background: Lack of adequate facial projection is a common aesthetic problem that can affects all three levels of the face (facial thirds), often occurring in more than one level in the same patient. The most recognized and treated facial third deficiency is the lower one as commonly seen in a weak chin. It is also Read More…

Technical Strategies – Sequencing Multi-Level Temporal Artery Ligations

One of the uncommon but not rare aesthetic forehead deformities is that of a prominent temporal artery. Usually appearing for no apparent reason the pattern of the anterior branch of the superficial temporal artery becomes partially or fully apparent as it crosses from the temporal hairline across the side of the forehead up into the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Anterior Temporal Reduction in Congenital Asymmetry

Background: The width of the side of the head is controlled by muscle and not bone. This is a revelation for most patients as the belief is that the thickness of the temporal bone is what makes the head wide. But a look at the anatomy reveals that the bone is actually deeply concave by Read More…

The Basic Concepts of Achieving The High Cheekbone Look With Custom Cheek Implants

The cheek area is one of the most common types of facial augmentation procedures. While long ago once only achievable with implants, many more cheek augmentations are performed today by less invasive means with injectable fillers and fat. They offer a cheek augmentation effect with minimal recovery and generally a very low chance of any Read More…

Earlobe Reduction Using A Spiral Three Triangle Flap Technique

While large earlobes can occur naturally many develop as a result of aging. Gravity, heavy eye ring wear and the lack of cartilage support of the earlobe allows it to stretch inferiorly creating an elongated earlobe. It is no surprise therefore that some facelift patients have large earlobes that could benefit by reduction at the Read More…

Technical Strategies – The High Anterior Incision for Temporal Implant Placement

Permanent augmentation of the temples is done by specially designed implants that are unique to this facial area. Other than the lips the temples is the only facial area in which it is soft tissue not bone that is being augmented. This poses several unique implant considerations such as the need to have the implants Read More…