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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Liposuction as a Necklift Procedure

Background: Aging of the neck is associated with numerous well known changes. The neck droops down as excess skin and fat develop in the center and sides of the neck. The underlying platysma muscle separates and allow the deeper neck tissues to come spilling out. All together a neck wattle or turkey neck is the Read More…

OR Snapshots – Abdominal and Flank Liposuction

Liposuction is one of the most recognizable plastic surgery procedures and is the most commonly done body contouring operation. While there have been many innovations in liposuction devices and techniques over the past forty years since its U.S. introduction in the early 1980s, all such variations can produce effective fat reduction results when performed technically Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Older Male Direct Necklift

Background: The turkey neck is an urban term used to describe a hanging of neck tissue that most commonly occurs as a result of aging. It may occur in younger patients but it would be due exclusively to the loose neck tissue that results from large amounts of weight loss. Regardless of the cause, the Read More…

Inferior Border Jaw Shave in Facial Asymmetry

Facial asymmetry is not all that uncommon and can occur for a variety of reasons and in different degrees of expression. But the most common reason for facial asymmetry is developmental that becomes apparent as facial growth completes by late teenage years. In the majority of developmental facial asymmetry cases, the abnormal side is positioned Read More…

Technical Strategies – Pennant Corner of Mouth Lift

The lips play a major role in the appearance of the lower third of the face. Their size and shape gives indications of gender, expression and age. The lips are well known to be affected by age with thinning of the amount of vermilion show, lip lines and downturning of the corners of the mouth. Read More…

Lip Augmentation and Lip Aesthetics

The shape and size of the lips, particularly in females, is an important feature of the lower third of the face. This is very apparent when one looks at the tremendous popularity aesthetic lip augmentation, primarily done by injectable fillers, has enjoyed over the past two decades. Despite their popularity and the tens of milions Read More…

Bicep Implants – Five Things to Know

Muscle enhancement of the body with implants has a far shorter surgical history than that of facial augmentation. Pectoral and calf implants are the most recognizable body implants to enhance muscular size and definition in men. But other body muscles can be synthetically augmented but because they are done in such few numbers, the public Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – V-Line Jaw Reduction Reversal with Custom Jawline Implant

Background: One of the most popular jawline surgeries around the world, particularly in Asian people, is jaw reduction. Know more commonly as V-Line jaw reduction surgery, it involves removal of wide or flared jaw angle (amputation) and chin reshaping. (narrow and shortening through am intraoral T-shaped ostectomy) For those patients that have a wide jaw Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Double Chin Correction with Chin Augmentation and Submental Liposuction

Background: The shape of the chin has a major effect on facial appearance. Since the chin is a projecting facial structure, it highly influences the shape of the face and how defined the neck can look. The shorter the chin becomes the more convex the facial profile becomes and the neck looks increasingly ‘lost’. A Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Otoplasty in Young Male Child

Background: The formation of the ear is an amazingly complex embryonic process. That is evident in just looking at the ear with its spiral array of convexities and concavities of cartilage around the ear canal. It is remarkable that it forms properly and does so twice in most people due to its bilateral presence. But Read More…