Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implants for Head Widening

Background: The shape of the head can be quite variable amongst different people. While often perceived as a smooth oblong shape, some people are not as blessed with such a smooth and symmetric skull. The skull can have a large number of asymmetries and deficiencies that may be of concern to the patient but unperceived Read More…

Fat Injections for Chronic Scalp Pain and Tightness

Tightness and pain after scalp surgery is fairly uncommon. The scalp can become tight after a variety of procedures for aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Usually these procedures have one thing in common…closure of a scalp wound after tissue loss. The tissue loss may be from removal of a benign or malignant tumor or for a Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Extended Tummy Tuck in the Partial Weight Loss Patient

Background: There is no more effective procedure in abdominal reshaping than tummy tuck surgery. What separates a tummy tuck from liposuction is that all tissue components of the abdominal fullness are treated as opposed to just fat removal. (liposuction) Tummy tuck surgery can fundamentally be separated into two basic types; normal or close to normal Read More…

Multi Point Fixation Temporal Browlift

One of the signs of periorbital aging, amongst many, is the descent of the outer aspect or tail of the eyebrow. This is almost always more of an aesthetic issue in women than it is in men. For some women this may be the only aspect of brow descent that is troubling. Botox injections are Read More…

Technical Strategies – Abdominal Etching Techniques

Liposuction of the abdomen is the single most common body site in which fat is surgically extracted. Most people are happy with some reduction of their abdominal fullness with the hope of being as flat as they can possibly be. An overall better abdominal shape is the goal and most patients would define abdominal shaping Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Total Vertical Jawline Augmentation

Background: Lower jaw deficiencies are most commonly perceived as being of the horizontal variety. A short chin invokes the need for horizontal chin augmentation and this certainly is the most common jaw augmentation procedure. It is also the simplest and most easily performed. But jaw deficiences can occur in other dimensions as well and their Read More…

Case Study – The Small Skull Implant for Indentation Contouring

Background: Skull defects come in a wide variety of shape, sizes and thicknesses. Correcting them can also be done using a variety of cranioplasty materials. The choice of cranioplasty material depends on a variety of factors including size of the defect, whether it is partial or full-thickness, and the desired location and length of the Read More…

Early Age Otoplasty in Children

Otoplasty or pinning back of the ears is the most frequently done ear reshaping procedure. It can be done throughout life in a wide range of ages. It is most commonly done in children and teenagers where protruding ears can be a very sensitive issue in their early psychosocial. While once done in children because Read More…

Product Review – Lip Augmentation with Juvederm Ultra XC

Lip augmentation is one of the most common and historic procedures for hyaluronic acid-based injectable fillers. It would surprise many then to find out that despite its popularity and common usage, few of these injectable fillers are actually FDA-approved for use in the lips. There are a variety of reasons for this lack of approval Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Extended Chin Implant

Background: Chin augmentation is the commonly performed facial bone augmentation site. Chin implants have been around for almost fifty years in a preformed fashion. A large number of different chin implant styles and sizes now exist that seemingly can treat just about every type of aesthetic chin deformity. The single greatest change/advance in chin implants Read More…