Category: plastic surgery

Celebrity Plastic Surgery – The Good and the Bad

One of the most common statements, comments or ‘requests’ from many patients considering plastic surgery is that they do not want to have a result like a certain celebrity(s). Every plastic surgeon has heard this endless times and the roll call of celebrities who are known for their strikingly obvious surgical changes is well known. Read More…

Technical Strategies – A Modified Suture Technique in Chin Dimple Creation Surgery

Cheek dimples are indentations in the central area of the chin soft tissue pad of varying degrees of depth. They are caused by a defect in the mentalis muscle and thickness of the overlying fat that causes the skin to be drawn inward. It is a genetically-inherited trait and has been associated with chromosome Read More…

Case Study: Solid Silicone Testicle Implants

Background: The scrotal sac normally contains two testicles. Loss of one of the testicles can occur from a variety of medical conditions from an undescended testes, infection and cancer removal to name a few. Generally, having only one testicle does not affect one’s testosterone levels or the ability to have children. But it does affect Read More…

Case Study: Healing and Scars From Breast Reduction Surgery

Background: The treatment of large breasts has been done for almost one hundred years with a variety of surgical techniques. Despite the many techniques that have been used to create a smaller breast, the one that has stood the test of time is the inferior pedicle method. Also known as the Wise pattern (as the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Exparel for Rapid Recovery Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular and commonly performed elective body contouring procedures. The most frequent location for breast implants is under the pectoralis major muscle, technically a partial submuscular location known as the dual plane pocket. While this implant pocket location has numerous advantages long-term, the elevation of the muscle does Read More…

Healing and Wound Complications in Supersize Abdominal Panniculectomy Surgery

The abdominal pannus is a stomach deformity where any amount of tissue hangs over the waistline. The term, pannus, is derived from a latin word for apron so it is fitting that any overhang is referred to as such. In days before bariatric surgery, abdominal panniculectomy surgery was very common and it was almost always Read More…

A Study in Incisionless Otoplasty

The surgical correction of protruding ears has been successfully done for over a century. It has long been recognized that the problem in the ear that sticks out too far lies in its cartilage framework, either lacking an adequate antihelical fold or having a too prominent concha. A postauricular open approach with the placement Read More…

Case Study – Natural Blepharoplasty Results

Background: Aging is an inevitable consequence of living and its most recognizable effects are on the face. The first place affected on the face by aging is around and on the eyes. The near constant motion of the eyelids and its thin overlying skin are a set up for wrinkles, loose skin and bags and Read More…

Joan Rivers – A Comedian’s Legacy to Plastic Surgery

Joan Rivers, comedian and and, in many ways, a champion of plastic surgery, died last week…ironically, having a minor surgical procedure. (however, not a plastic surgery procedure). She is the second such famous female comedian (Phyllis Diller in 2012) that has been tied to plastic surgery that has died in the past few years; Read More…

Forehead Widening Implants

Facial implants are commonly used to augment various areas of the face. While historically this had been relegated to the cheeks and chin, their use has been widely extended to many other facial areas as well. One of the newer areas of facial implant use has been the temporal region for correction of excessive temporal Read More…