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Small Sagittal Skull Implants

While the skull is often envisioned as a perfectly smooth oval shape, it often isn’t. Due to how the cranial sutures fuse and intervening bones form, the surface of the skull is often irregular. Such irregularities often occur along the suture lines due to their early activity during development and closure right after birth. They Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Golden Ratio

The search for what makes a face beautiful or attractive goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. Long before the possibilities of plastic surgery were even remotely envisioned, painters and sculptors used mathematical numbers and rations to create their works. Numerous contemporary studies have both qualified and quantified ‘beauty’ and have been able to Read More…

Subfascial vs. Intramuscular Buttock Implants

Buttock augmentation has gained tremendous popularity as a surgical procedure in just the past decade. This has largely been due to the use of fat injections for buttock augmentation, an approach that offers a diametric effect with enlargement of one body area (injection site) and reduction of many other body areas (liposuction harvest) during the Read More…

The Value of the Alar Rim Graft in Rhinoplasty

The shape of the nostrils and the overlying nostril rims has taken on increased interest in rhinoplasty surgery and its outcomes. Much of this interest in driven by patients who may after a rhinoplasty feel that they show too much of a nostril opening or have nostril asymmetry with one rim of the nostril higher Read More…

Counterfeit Botox in the U.S. Alert

  Botox injection therapy is the single greatest pharmacologic agent in use today for non-surgical facial rejuvenation. It has been become so popular and used that patients talk about getting ‘Botoxed’…reminiscent of days when copying was known as ‘Xeroxing’. That is how you know your product has worked its way into the national lexicon when Read More…

Case Study: Sliding Genioplasty for Lower Facial Elongation

Background: A sliding genioplasty is a well known and historic procedure for changing the shape of the chin. It was originally described in the 1940s but has evolved considerably due to the use of rigid fixation using plates and screws. While once clever osteotomy designs and wire fixation methods were used for stabilization of the Read More…

Product Review – Exilis Elite for Cellulite Treatment

Cellulite is a well recognized aesthetic skin condition that occurs most commonly in women and involves the buttocks and thighs. The cottage cheese appearance is recognized today to be the result of compartmentalized fat hypertrophy and the contraction of dermal-fascial bands in the involved regions. New device based treatments continue to emerge for its treatment Read More…

PRP Injections for Periorbital Hyperpigmentation

Darkening of the eyelids, known as periorbital hyperpigmentation, is when excess pigment develops on the eyelids. While it can occur on either the upper and lower eyelids, and often involves both, it is most common and aesthetically troublesome on  the lower eyelids. Its causes is not exactly known and is multifactorial and has been ascribed Read More…

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