Blog

The Healing and Maturation of Breast Lift Scars

Breast lifting is often needed in breast augmentation surgery when the nipples sits at or below the level of the inframammary fold. While there are four different types of breast lifts, the most effective of them involve the excision and tightening of skin beyond the areola on the lower pole of the breast. Breast lifts Read More…

OR Snapshots – Direct Necklift for Older Turkey Neck Removals

Significant aging of the neck is most commonly treated by a neck lift, also known as a lower facelift. While earlier signs of neck sagging/fullness may be treated by liposuction and other more limited procedures, true neck wattles can only be treated by more traditional and aggressive approaches. A lower facelift/necklift repositions the hanging neck Read More…

Choosing Widening vs Vertical Lengthening Jaw Angle Implant Styles

The development of new jaw angle implant styles has finally allowed augmentation of the back part of the jaw to get caught up with that of the chin. The jaw angles have been overlooked for a long time as implant styles and sizes of the chin have progressed. With the chin and jaw angle implant Read More…

OR Snapshots – Premaxillary Osteotomy for Anterior Upper Jaw Protrusion

Orthognathic surgery is a well known type of bone procedures that move the upper and lower jaws to improve one’s bite (occlusion) as well as improve jaw relationships to the face. It is done on the upper and lower jaws with the mainstay procedures of a LeFort I osteotomy (upper jaw) and sagittal split ramus Read More…

OR Snapshots – Vertical Lengthening Genioplasty with Interpositional Graft

Chin augmentation is traditionally thought as a choice between a chin implant and a sliding genioplasty. While seen as the two procedure choices for chin reshaping they are not really interchangeable. Besides the difference between synthetically augmenting the bone vs actually cutting and moving the bone, they can achieve different dimensional chin changes. The one Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Breast Augmentation in Women with Puffy Nipples (Microform Tuberous Breast)

Background: Breast implants are intended to enlarge the existing breast mounds. In so doing it is often erroneously believed that other features of the breast may be similarly improved. Unfortunately this is rarely true. Conversely any other deformities or asymmetries of the breast may actually become more noticeable not less. The most visible feature of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Intramuscular Buttock Implants in Female with Lack of Fat for BBL

Background: Buttock implants offer a method of buttock augmentation when one has inadequate fat to harvest. It has become more popular over the past decade than ever before as the patient demand for buttock augmentation has risen dramatically. But unlike fat transfer there are multiple considerations when buttock implants are considered. These include size, shape Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Custom Implant for Vertical Jawline Lengthening

Background: While jawline augmentation is most commonly associated with men, it is gaining aesthetic significance in women as well. A strong jawline is historically associated with increased masculinity. Women are more associated with softer and more recessed chin positions and jawline shapes. But the contemporary female jawline is now desired to have a more definitive Read More…

Changing the Attachment of the Earlobe to the Face

One of the features of an earlobe is in how they attach to the face. In some patients the earlobe curves upwards and attaches to the face in an inverted V shape. They are often referred to as unattached earlobes. In other patients the earlobe joins the face directly without any break in he attachment. Read More…

Techniques in Earlobe Reduction

Lengthening of the earlobe as one ages is both an old adage as well as a reality. Being the only soft tissue structure of the ear that is not supported by cartilage, it is prone to becoming stretched. Being on the southside of the ear, gravity is also not in its favor. This elongation effect Read More…