Category: OR snapshots | skull reshaping

OR Snapshots – The Macroporous Custom Skull Implant

Custom skull implants have become a reliable and safe method of various types of skull augmentation. Made from the patient’s 3D CT scan, they cover the desired skull surface with a precise fit and a smooth outer surface that blends well into the surrounding bone/muscle areas. The most careful judgment has to be made in Read More…

The Custom Midface Implant for a Complete Midface Augmentation Effect

When most people (and many surgeons) think of midface augmentation, the use of cheek implants comes to mind. While cheek implants certainly do augment one area of the midface, they only cover one specific of the midface…the upper and outer corner of it. Most of the midface lies between the cheeks and consists of the Read More…

Supernumerary Nipples in Breast Augmentation

A extra nipple, in either men or women, is not rare. Occurring in up to 5% of the population, it is often mistaken for a mole due to its circular appearance. What separates it from a mole is that it is raised and has a textured and not a smooth appearance. It does not usually Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Asian Double Eyelid Surgery

Background: The double eyelid surgery is a well known blepharoplasty technique that creates an upper eyelid crease in the typical Asian monolid. While the supratarsal fold is present in many ethnic groups around the world, it is missing in many Asian patients. The operation per we does not really create two upper eyelids or removes Read More…

Technical Strategies – Stacked Jaw Angle Implants for Additional Augmentation

Jaw angles implants are designed to add size and shape to the mandibular ramus area. They are a companion and complement to the more commonly performed and well known chin implant. Together chin and jaw angle implants create a complete jaw augmentation approach. While selecting the style and size of chin implants is fairly easy, Read More…

Zygomatic Arch Implants and the High Cheekbone Look

The zygomatic arch is the part of the cheekbone that extends back to the temporal bone in front of the ear. It is a thin bone and serves and looks like a bridge, allowing the temporalis muscle to pass underneath it. It can be thought of as the side of the cheekbone. While it Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Open Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty surgery requires incisional access to perform osteocartilaginous reshaping. The most common historic technique was the ‘closed approach’ where all incisions were placed inside the nose. Because this provided limited visual access it took a lot of experience to master aesthetic nasal surgery. This was the standard in rhinoplasty until the 1990s were it was Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Older Female Jaw Angle Implants

Background: The strength of the lower jaw is a known favorable feature for a male. But it has become increasingly desired and requested for women as well. Partially spurned on by various well known celebrities and actresses’ jaw shapes, younger women are seeking stronger jawlines as well. An important part, and until recently overlooked, of Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Bifid Nasal Tip Rhinoplasty

The shape of the nose amongst people is as different as that of fingerprints. Between the innumerable size and thicknesses of the bone and cartilage that make up the nose and its thick or thin skin cover, the variability in nose shapes is endless. What rhinoplasty can do is to change the shape and thicknesses Read More…

Rhinoplasty using ePTFE Nasal Implants

Augmentation of the nose can be done by a variety of rhinoplasty techniques and materials. When possible, one’s own cartilage is always the best from a biologic standpoint and is preferred if it can provide a satisfactory aesthetic outcome. The use of septum, ear and rib cartilages offer a wide variety of graft choices that Read More…