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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Nose Female Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty can achieve many different types of nasal changes. The classic requested changes would be reduction of a prominent hump or bump and making the tip smaller, more refined and usually shorter. Straightening of a crooked nose is also a common request and is done as part of any other nasal shape change. These Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Upper Eyelid Lifts under Local Anesthesia

Background: Upper blepharoplasty surgery, more commonly known as an eyelid lift, is the most common cosmetic eyelid surgery. It is tremendously effective and is associated with a very low risk of complications. While eyelid tissue is very thin and swells significantly after surgical manipulation, the recovery is fairly quick. The results of blepharoplasty surgery is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Extended Tummy Tuck

Background: Tummy tuck surgery is one of the most common and successful types of body contouring surgeries. It is used in many post-pregnancy and weight loss women to correct the effects of having babies and the changes that process can induce on one’s body in the mid-section area. This type of tummy tuck usually induce Read More…

Kybella Injections For Submental Fat Reduction

  The recent approval of Kybella for the treatment of under the chin fat (submental) fat appears like it is a new treatment. And as an FDA-approved drug it is. But the concept of a fat dissolving injectable drug is really now new and has a predicate history in the world of mesotherapy and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Occipital Implant in Women

  Background: One of the most common aesthetic skull deformities occurs in women with concerns about the shape of the back of their head. Lack of adequate fullness at the vertex and upper occipital region creates a flatness that promotes some women to compensate by puffing up their hair to hide it. This is such Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair

Background: Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common facial birth defects often cited as occurring in about 1 in every 1,000 births. While there are race, gender and world wide differences in this occurrence rate, it is a condition that is well recognized around the world for its prevalance. Almost everyone has Read More…

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…

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