Category: facial implants

Saline Injection Trials for Facial Implants

Facial augmentation can be done by either temporary injectable fillers into the soft tissues or permanent implants placed down on the bone. Such materials causing a change in the external shape of the face in the area treated but its exact change can not be precisely predicted. While computer imaging can try to create the Read More…

Long-Term Hairline Stability in Pretrichial Browlifts

When it comes to forehead rejuvenation a variety of browlifting strategies exist. Three of the browlifting methods use a superior or scalp incisional access to do the procedure. The most popular of these is the endoscopic technique which uses a few small scalp incisions and an epicranial tissue shift to create its brow elevation effect. Read More…

Sientra Textured Silicone Breast Implant Capsular Contracture Warranty

Of the numerous complications that can occur in breast augmentation, capsular contracture is the most vexing of them all. The formation of excessive circumferential scar formation around the implant can be problematic in terms of the look and feel of the breast with potential hardness and shape distortion. The reason for capsular contracture in Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom: Is The Scar Worth it?

Almost all plastic surgery operations create scars. Sometimes the scar is hidden and is a near irrelevant issue. Other times the scar is very visible and is a significant consideration as to whether one wants the operation or not. But there are cases where the scar is ‘equivocal’. Maybe the scar trade 0ff is worth Read More…

Preventing Buttock Implant Complications By Proper Size Selection

Buttock augmentation is one of the most in demand body contouring procedures today. While ten years ago it was infrequently requested compared to breast augmentation for example, it has increased over ten-fold since then. Such an increase in buttock augmentation has been driven by many factors including the celebrity appeal. (Jennifer Lopex, the Kardahasians Read More…

Spot Cranioplasty for Skull Dents and Dimples

The skull has a wide variability of external shapes and no two people have exactly the same looking head. But most of the time these skull shapes share one consistent feature…they are usually smooth. The outer bony surface has a relatively smooth convex surface which translates into a smooth feeling scalp on the outside. This Read More…

Botox Injections for Keloid Scars

Keloids represent the extreme of scar problems. As a tissue overgrowth response to an injury, and often progressive and unremitting, keloids are a true pathologic scar problem. Besides being an overly obvious scar problem, it is also highly refractory to conventional scar therapies. While many strategies have been used for difficult keloids after excision Read More…

Injectable Fillers for Rhinoplasty Contour Deformities

Rhinoplasty is a well known reshaping operation of the nose with a long history and a large number of techniques to accomplish these changes. Despite the many rhinoplasty techniques and a lot of experience in performing them, there is always the risk that some irregularity or asymmetry will develop after surgery. While many of these Read More…

Ear Pointing and Ear Elf Surgery

It is not rare that a patient will request to see if some face or body feature they have can be changed to look more like that possessed by a certain celebrity. Whether it be a nose, jawline, breasts or buttocks, the shape of the famous has always motivated others to seek the same. But Read More…

Case Study: Upper Lip Labial Artery Aneurysm

Background: Aneurysms of blood vessels can be either true (often caused by atherosclerosis and involving all three components of the arterial wall) or false. (often caused by trauma and involving just a portion of the arterial wall) Most arterial aneurysms are perceived as involving large vessels (e.g., aorta) but they can involve any vessel small Read More…