Category: facelift

Concepts in Male Facelift Surgery

According to annual statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons over 100,000 facelift procedures were performed in the U.S. last year. Roughy 10% of them were done in men. While many of the reasons for having a facelift and the surgical techniques used to perform it are not gender specific, there are some distinct Read More…

The Different Types of ePTFE Facial Implants

There have been a wide variety of materials used for facial implants over the past fifty years. But as today there are really only three basic biomaterials that have proven consistently effective and easily manufactured with a relatively low incidence of complications in human facial implantation use. These biomaterials are silicone, polyethylene (Medpor) and polytetrafluoroethylene. Read More…

Improving Closed Reduction of Nasal Fracture Outcomes

The broken nose is the most common facial fracture and references to its treatment date back a thousand years. It is usually viewed as a simple problem that is easily fixed by trying to push back into place the displaced nasal bones. But the reality is that nasal fractures are underdiagnosed and untreated and there Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Occipital Knob Skull Reduction

Background: The occipital bone of the skull is the very back part that is shaped like a dish and covers the occipital lobes of the cerebellum. Near the bottom of the visible occipital bone is a series of curved horizontal lines known as the nuchal ridges onto which are attached various ligaments and muscles. In Read More…

Technical Strategies – Intraoral Chin Implant Placement

Chin augmentation through the use of an implant is an historic procedure that dates back over fifty years and is still commonly performed today. It is typically done with a silicone chin implant due to its wide variety of styles and sizes and its smooth surface which facilitates its insertion and placement. A chin implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Custom Skull Implant Replacement for PMMA Cement

Background: Many areas of the face and the body can be augmented for aesthetic purposes. While the skull is not usually perceived as also be able to be enlarged, it can be done as well. The tightness of the overlying scalp is more restrictive than other body areas so there are limits as to how Read More…

Technical Strategies – Using Buccal Fat for Lip Injections

Lip augmentation by injections is one of the most common injectable filler treatments of the face. It has been done since synthetic collagen fillers were introduced way back in 1981. Since then many different injectable filler materials have been used but the ideal lip augmentation material remains as yet undiscovered. Fat would seem to be Read More…

Custom Cheek Implants for High Arch Model Look

Cheek implants come in a variety of styles and sizes to create slightly different midface augmentation effects. Many of the styles of cheek implants have surgeon names attached to them which does not help in understanding exactly what cheek effect they create. But fundamentally cheek implants effect either the malar or submalar regions. The malar Read More…

Fat Injections as a Scar Treatment

Scars are created by the reparative mechanisms of the body to heal a wound. The amount of scar tissue created varies based on a variety of factors. While effective at sealing and healing the wounds, the scar tissue is not normal and is not an exact replica of the tissue that it replaces or that Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Inner Thigh Lifts

Background: Large amounts of weight loss, whether from bariatric surgery or through non-surgical diet and exercise, has an overall body deflation effect. This is manifest as loose skin which can be seen from the neck down to below the knees. All of this loose skin has created a whole spectrum of new body contouring procedures Read More…