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Custom Deltoid Implants for Shoulder Augmentation

Soft solid silicone implants are commonly used in men to augment multiple muscles throughout the body. Enhancement of the chest (pectoralis major) and calves (gastrocnemius) has been done for a long time as evidenced by multiple styles and sizes of performed commercially available implants to do so. More recently other muscle groups of the upper Read More…

The Female Custom Jawline Implant Design

Jawline augmentation has been historically perceived, and is still done so today by many plastic surgeons, as augmentation of the chin. But the chin is just the anterior portion of the jaw and represents less than one-third of its total bony mass. Jawline augmentation really refers to either isolated jaw angle augmentation or complete augmentation Read More…

Technical Strategies – Incision Placement for Custom Trapezius Implants

Some major muscles of the body that can be surgically augmented for aesthetic benefit by commercially available preformed implants are that of the chest, arms, buttocks and lower leg. What all of these share (with the exception of the pectoralis major muscle) is that the implants are usually placed on top of the muscle under Read More…

Essential Steps in Upper Blepharoplasty Surgery

Blepharoplasty remains the cornerstone of facial rejuvenation surgery. This is not only because the eyelids show the first and most visible signs of facial aging but because each patient has two sets of them. Of the two eyelids the upper eyelid is often the most frequently treated because it develops skin redundancies that are usually Read More…

OR Snapshots – Pectoral Implant Replacements

Pectoral implants are an effective technique in men for augmenting the shape and size of the pectoralis major muscle. Inserted into the subpectoral plane through a high axillary incision, the chest can be augmented with minimal to no visible scarring. With today’ wide range of implant styles and sizes, many men’s chest augmentation needs can Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Traumatic Lower Eyelid Reconstruction with Lacrimal Duct Repair

Background: Dogbites in children are not uncommon and they are often bitten more than in adults. Bites to the face are frequent in young children due to the their height similarities to some dogs as well as a dog’s tendency to lunge at the face and neck. Children frequently see a dog as ‘cuddly’ and Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Elbow Lifts

Background: Aging causes loose skin to develop and this is particularly evident around joints such as the knee. The repetitive extension and flexion over a lifetime will inevitably cause rolls of skin to develop on the north side of the joint where the skin is the most flexible. This has led to the need for Read More…

Surgical Treatment of Congenital Festoons

Festoons are a unique lower eyelid condition that appears as bags below the more common location of infraorbital fat herniation on the cheek. Also known as malar bags they are perceived as being abnormal collections of lymphedematous fatty tissue below the lid-cheek junction. They are particularly resistant to being removed with traditional lower blepharoplasty surgery Read More…

Designing a Cleft Custom Jawline Implant

The prominence of the chin, the projecting anterior point of the lower jaw, is a facial feature sought by many men. The shape of the chin, however, has other features than just an anterior prominence. It has the other dimensional features of width and vertical length as well as unique surface topography in dimples and Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Hydroxyapatite Cement and Resorbable Backing for Full-Thickness Skull Defect Reconstruction

Background: Early cranial vault surgery for a variety of congenital craniosynostosis disorders has been done for over thirty years. Such surgery is done at an early because the bone is thin enough to be able to be removed and reshaped and the dura covering of the brain has some remaining osteogenic potential. This means that Read More…