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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Round or Fuller Breast Augmentation Result

Background: The size of the implant chosen is the single most important decision from a patient’s perspective. More time is spent on this aspect of the surgery than other factors such as implant type, pocket location, implant profile or even the surgeon performing the procedure. How to match implant size to the patient’s goals, however, Read More…

OR Snapshots – Temporal Reduction for Head Width Narrowing

The size of one’s head can be judged from different dimensions. One of these dimensions is head width, which is judged by the appearance or size of the head above the ears. A normal head width does not stand out and has either a flat to a very slightly convex shape. It lies well inside Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Scalp Reconstruction with Custom Skull Implant

Background: Most scalp reconstructions are done for the need to recreate a full-thickness scalp layer. Replacing a full-thickness scalp wound requires all layers of the scalp and must be done by either tissue expansion or rotation flaps of adjacent scalp or the microvascular transfer of distant tissue. Most partial thickness scalp defects are missing some Read More…

The Jaw Angle Cap Implant for Improved Jaw Definition

The contemporary desire for a well defined jaw angle rivals that of the more well established demand for increased chin projection. Even though it is on the back part of the jaw, its influence on the perception of the lower face is significant as there are two jaw angles that project out from the side Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study- Pennant Corner of Mouth Lift for Correction of the Frowning Mouth

Background: The smile is one of the most important forms of facial expression. The perception of the entire face changes as soon as one sees someone smile. But the time when one is smiling is far more limited than when one is expressionless. While an expressionless face is supposed to convey no emotion that is Read More…

Custom Hip Implants for Failed Fat Grafting

Hip augmentation is most commonly done using fat injections. Even for patients that do not have a lot of fat to harvest, enough can almost always be obtained to fill in indentations or divots on both sides of the hips. But when combined buttock and hip augmentations are needed or in a thin body type, Read More…

Nanofat Grafting for Skin Rejuvenation

Injectable fillers are the most common method used today for a wide variety of facial volumizing effects. Ideal for patients that want an immediate result that avoids surgery, the selection of almost twenty different fillers provides a filler type for every patient’s needs. Despite these advantages injectable fillers have one major downside…lack or persistence. Despite Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Incomplete Cleft Lip Repair

Background: While cleft lip and palate is a widely recognized orofacial deformity, it is less commonly appreciated that it has a wide spectrum of presentations. It occurs in basic categories of combined cleft lip and palate and isolated cleft lip and isolated cleft palate, but every possible variation in between these basic categories occurs. Its Read More…

Custom Buttock Implants for Larger Buttock Augmentations

Buttock augmentation is most commonly done using fat injections. Known by the term, Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL for short, large volume fat injections can be done to increase buttock size over a broad surface area. While limited by how much fat the patient has to harvest and how much of that injected fat will Read More…

Bioelectronics Migraine Device Study

Headaches are a common human malady and present in many forms that range anywhere from a minor nuisance to that of being debilitating. One of the more severe headache forms is that of migraines. Being a true neurologic disorder, this type of headache is associated with head pain that is both disruptive and causes dysfunction. Read More…