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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Breast Lifts with Implants

Background: Sagging of the breasts is a common result from pregnancies and weight loss. The loss of breast volume withdraws the support of the overlying breast skin leading to collapse of the breast mound. The breast mound then falls over the fixed inframammary fold creating a sagging breast appearance. The classification of breast sagging is Read More…

Successful Placement of Large Breast Implants

While there many important issues to consider in breast augmentation, the size of the implant is one that women spent the greatest amount of time pondering before surgery. There are a variety of implant sizing methods and they all have their merits, but the reality is that breast implant sizing is not an exact science. Read More…

Is Arnica Montana Effective in Rhinoplasty for Reducing Postoperative Bruising?

Bruising after certain elective facial procedures is very common and expected. While well tolerated by patients, given that they have no choice, any reduction of its extent and duration would be appreciated. Rhinoplasty is one of those facial procedures that is well known to cause considerable bruising when osteotomies (breaking of the nasal bones) are Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Rib Graft Cleft Rhinoplasty

Background: Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common congenital facial deformities. While much focus is on the lip, alveolus and palate, the nose is equally affected as well. While the nose may not be ‘clefted’, deformity underneath it causes a variety of septal, turbinate and nasal cartilage and bone structural alterations. Management Read More…

Aesthetic Outcomes of Facial Scar Revisions

Scar revision is an important technique and part of plastic surgery. Many traumatic and sometimes surgical scars do not heal as desired and may benefit from a scar revision procedure. While much ado is made of laser resurfacing of scars for improvement, the reality is that many poorly formed scars will benefit by actual excision Read More…

Misconceptions of the Buccal Lipectomy Procedure

One of the techniques to help create a thinner face is that of a buccal lipectomy procedure. Because it is the largest collection of encapsulated fat on the face and its extraction is a straightforward and uncomplicated procedure, it is an easy target when it comes to facial slimming efforts. Despite that the buccal lipectomy Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Jumping Genioplasty for Severe Chin/Jaw Recession

Background: A sliding genioplasty is the most well known of all the facial osteotomies and also the most commonly performed. It is done for various chin augmentation and reshaping purposes. It if often compared to a chin implant and doctors often tout one versus the other for aesthetic chin augmentation. But the reality is that Read More…

Upper Lift for Tip Elevation in the Aging Nose

Aging affects all facial tissues to some degree including the nose. The effects of time on the nose occurs at the nasal tip where the cartilages are help up by ligaments to the cartilage structures of the middle value. The effects of age on the nasal tip are that some increased droop can occur as Read More…

Male Transpalpebral Browlift Using Endotine Fixation

Correction/repositioning of sagging brows is done by well known browlift procedures. The vast majority of browlift surgeries are done in women with access to do the procedure coming from above in and behind the frontal hairline. The three different female browlift techniques (coronal, pretrichial and endoscopic) are chosen based on forehead skin length and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Webbed Neck Correction Surgery

Background: A webbed neck, medically known as pterygium colli deformity, is a well known but rare congenital neck condition. Skin folds are present along the sides of the neck from the back of the head behind the ears down to the shoulders. The hairline often follows the skin folds in their upper part. It is Read More…