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Technical Strategies – Cupid’s Bow Lift of the Upper Lip

Augmentation of the upper lip is one of the most commonly done non-surgical facial enhancement procedures. This can usually be successfully done through the use of a variety of different hyaluronic acid-based injectable fillers. Despite their popularity and frequency of use, however, injectable fillers can not solve all aesthetic upper lip concerns. A thin upper Read More…

Technical Strategies – Custom Skull Implant Orientation Markings

  The fabrication of custom skull implants offers a major advance in the treatment of many aesthetic skull deformities. Historically skull augmentation had to be done using a long and complete coronal scalp incision and resultant scar for access and intraoperatively shaped bone cement materials. But today’s custom skull implants allow for the shaping of Read More…

Mondor’s Cord after Breast Augmentation

Surgery of the breast is very common in women with breast augmentation being the most common aesthetic operation. There are many potential complications of breast augmentation surgery but fortunately most of them are minor and some of them are even self-solving. Technically if an after surgery problem eventually resolves on its own without surgical treatment Read More…

Sientra Breast Implants in Indianapolis

  It has been nearly 2 1/2 years since a new company, Sientra, was permitted to produce and sell breast implants in the U.S. with FDA approval. Sientra joined two other major U.S. manufacturers of breast implants to make a total of three product lines from which to choose for their patients. While there are Read More…

Technical Strategies – Tracheal Shave by Burring Reduction

A tracheal shave or Adam’s Apple reduction (technically a thyrochondroplasty) is a well known neck contouring procedure to reduce a thyroid cartilage prominence. While it is most commonly perceived to be a male to female transgender procedure, it is actually done just as commonly for men or women who have a prominent thyroid bulge and Read More…

Technique of Bony Forehead Reduction with Hairline Advancement

The long or high forehead can be challenging to treat. The vertical length of the forehead is typically judged to be too long if the distance from the eyebrows to the frontal hairline exceeds about 6.5 cms. This is obviously a subjective judgement as the aesthetics of the forehead defies any exact number. But when Read More…

Assessment of Facelift Surgery Satisfaction

  Facelift surgery is one of the most commonly performed anti-aging facial procedures and certainly one that is historically highly associated with plastic surgery. In the U.S. alone over 125,000 facelift procedures are performed per year. It is felt that a facelift produces a highly satisfied patient given the amount of improvement seen in before Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Breast Augmentation in Asymmetric Breasts

Background: Despite the breasts being a paired chest structure, they rarely are perfectly symmetric. These asymmetries may be slight and often are completely unrecognized by many women until they are pointed out. Larger breast asymmetries are more well known to the patient and may have been caused by natural breast development, pregnancies, breast feeding or Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Reduction of the Vertex Skull Bump

Background: The skull is formed by six separate cranial bones which are initially joined by fibrous tissue known as sutures. The union of these sutures is most commonly recognized by the two large open areas between them that remain after birth, the fontanelles or soft spots. The fontanelles allow for rapid stretching and deformation of Read More…

Classification and Treatment Approaches to the Tuberous Breast

Tuberous breasts are a well known congenital breast problem that presents in varying degrees of deformity. It has its greatest impact with the patient who presents for breast augmentation and often adjunctive strategies must be done at the time of implant placement to get a good breast shape result. Women often recognize that their breast(s) Read More…

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