Category: Clinic Snapshots | rib removal

Clinic Snapshots – The Effects of Rib Removal on Waistline Narrowing

Rib removal surgery can be an effective procedure for anatomic waistline reduction in properly selected patients. Such patients typically include the already thin female who is seeking an ‘extreme’ waistline reduction as well as the male to female transgender patient who is trying to achieve a more feminine waistline shape. Rib removal is effective in Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combining Custom Jaw Angle Implants with Sliding Genioplasty

Background: Jaw angle implants are enjoying a surge in popularity as patients are seeking improved shapes to their jawlines. Filling in the back part of the jaw offers a good complement to well established chin implants to create a more complete jawline augmentation effect. Like just about every other facial implant, no one size or Read More…

OR Snapshots – Scalp Tissue Expansion in Aesthetic Skull Augmentation

Expansion of the scalp through inflatable devices (‘balloons’) is a well established reconstructive technique. Originally developed to treat lost or missing soft tissues (skin), increasing the size of the surrounding tissues to stretch out and cover what has been lost is the fundamental concept of tissue expansion surgery. Such a concept works best in the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Liposuction as a Necklift Procedure

Background: Aging of the neck is associated with numerous well known changes. The neck droops down as excess skin and fat develop in the center and sides of the neck. The underlying platysma muscle separates and allow the deeper neck tissues to come spilling out. All together a neck wattle or turkey neck is the Read More…

OR Snapshots – Abdominal and Flank Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most recognizable plastic surgery procedures and is the most commonly done body contouring operation. While there have been many innovations in liposuction devices and techniques over the past forty years since its U.S. introduction in the early 1980s, all such variations can produce effective fat reduction results when performed technically Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Older Male Direct Necklift

Background: The turkey neck is an urban term used to describe a hanging of neck tissue that most commonly occurs as a result of aging. It may occur in younger patients but it would be due exclusively to the loose neck tissue that results from large amounts of weight loss. Regardless of the cause, the Read More…

Inferior Border Jaw Shave in Facial Asymmetry

Facial asymmetry is not all that uncommon and can occur for a variety of reasons and in different degrees of expression. But the most common reason for facial asymmetry is developmental that becomes apparent as facial growth completes by late teenage years. In the majority of developmental facial asymmetry cases, the abnormal side is positioned Read More…

Technical Strategies – Pennant Corner of Mouth Lift

The lips play a major role in the appearance of the lower third of the face. Their size and shape gives indications of gender, expression and age. The lips are well known to be affected by age with thinning of the amount of vermilion show, lip lines and downturning of the corners of the mouth. Read More…

Lip Augmentation and Lip Aesthetics

The shape and size of the lips, particularly in females, is an important feature of the lower third of the face. This is very apparent when one looks at the tremendous popularity aesthetic lip augmentation, primarily done by injectable fillers, has enjoyed over the past two decades. Despite their popularity and the tens of milions Read More…

Bicep Implants – Five Things to Know

Muscle enhancement of the body with implants has a far shorter surgical history than that of facial augmentation. Pectoral and calf implants are the most recognizable body implants to enhance muscular size and definition in men. But other body muscles can be synthetically augmented but because they are done in such few numbers, the public Read More…