Category: injectable fillers

MIcrocannulas for Injectable Lip Augmentation

The lips are one of the most unique areas of the face to be treated by injectable fillers. The lips are extremely soft and supple, have a high number of nerve endings and are the most frequently touched part of the entire face. They also have a somewhat complex shape to them and undergo a Read More…

Technical Strategies – Cartilage Spreader Grafts in Primary Rhinoplasty

The middle third of the nose is usually viewed as a mere bridge between the top of the nose and the tip. But it actually has a very significant functional purpose as what lies beneath it and is created by it is the internal nasal valves. Formed by the junction of the septum and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Combined Tummy Tuck and Brazilian Butt Lift

Background: Two of the most popular body contouring procedures today is one from the past and a relatively new one. Tummy tuck surgery has been around for over five decades and is highly successful at reshaping the abdominal wall often in a dramatic fashion. Conversely, buttock augmentation by fat injections (aka Brazilian Butt Lift) has Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Natural Breast Augmentation with Shaped Implants

Background: Breast augmentation is an operation whose effect is completely derived from the use of an implant. The push of the implant on the overlying breast tissue creates the size and to some degree the shape of the breast that results. While a women’s natural breast tissues do play a role in how the augmented Read More…

Old Age and Wound Healing in Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery today is done literally from head to toe and from the ages of soon after birth to octogenarians. Like never before older patients are undergoing non-surgical and surgical procedures for face and even body enhancements. When a plastic surgeon or a patient is considering surgery in these ‘advanced’ years it would seem Read More…

Technical Strategies – Muscle Resuspension in Vertical Chin Reduction

While a short chin is both common and easily treated by an implant or bony in most cases, the long or big chin is a much more challenging aesthetic issue. The tissue excess over the front end of the lower jaw makes its reduction fraught with problems of redundancy and potential tissue sag. Where does Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Calf Implants for Inner Lower Leg Reshaping

Background: One of the majn features of the lower leg is that of the calfs. The size of the calfs is due to its muscles which contribute to the shape of the leg below the knee. If they are well developed, the leg is seen as very muscular and athletic. If they are underdeveloped and Read More…

Implant Options for Deep Glabellar Wrinkles/Furrows

The most common cosmetic treatment of the glabellar region is that of Botox injections. By decreasing the effects of the procerus and corrugator muscles, the creation of vertical glabellar wrinkles or furrows is diminished. But Botox only treats dynamic dynamic wrinkling and will not change static wrinkles which represent the long term effects of unrestrained Read More…

Technical Strategies – Dermal-Fascial Suturing in Lower Buttock Lifts

There are numerous strategies to improving the shape of the buttocks of which the most popular is the Brazilian Butt Lift. (BBL) While this buttock augmentation method is called a lift, it really does not lift the buttocks at all. It fills out the buttocks to make it bigger or more round but is not Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Female Teenage Rhinoplasty

Background: With its central position on the face, it is no surprise that the nose is often a major focus of a teen’s attention. The constant exposure to social media, a developing self-image and peer pressure to be attractive and popular can have a teen preoccupied with their appearance. The nose can often become a Read More…