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The Effects of Taping After Rhinoplasty Surgery

In rhinoplasty surgery, it is standard of care to apply a compressive dressing to the external nose at the completion of surgery. It usually consists of glued on tapes and an overlying splint made of metal or plastic. Its purpose is to both limit how much swelling will occur in the nose as well Read More…

Tissue Responses to Jaw Angle Reduction Surgery

Reducing the width of the jaw angles is known as a gonioplasty procedure. It gets this name because the prominence of the jaw angles is known as the gonial angles which is located at the very back end of the lower border at the back of the jaw. When the width is aesthetically excessive, the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposculpture of Abdomen and Flanks

Background: Liposuction is the surgical removal of fat by negative pressure evacuation. (suction) It creates its effect through a combination of fat removal and overlying skin contraction. By definition it is a volume reduction procedure. But depending upon the patient and the volume of fat removed the external effect may be a general body shape Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposuction of Abdomen and Flanks

Background: Liposuction is the most commonly performed body contouring procedure. Both by the number of body areas and their overall surface area treated, liposuction is widely performed around the world. With all of the surgical fat removal done the most common body area treated is the abdomen and waistline. Regardless of the patient size liposuction Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Jawline Implant Replacement for Standard Chin and Jaw Angle Implants

Background: The role of the custom jawline implant in facial augmentation is mainly to create dimensional changes to the jawline that standard preformed chin and jaw angle implants can not accomplish. It also creates a unique effect by uniting the chin and jaw angles to create a wrap around effect. But one of its other Read More…

Volumetric Comparisons of Jaw Angle Implants vs Injectable Fillers

Jaw angle implants have become more recently recognized as an essential part of jawline augmentation. While much focus has historically been on the front protruding part of the jaw through chin augmentation, it is now recognized that the chin represents just a part of the total lower facial effect. While jaw angle implants have been Read More…

Volumetric Comparison of Temporal Implants vs Injectable Fillers

Temporal augmentation has become a more recent aesthetic procedure. It is most commonly done using a wide variety of synthetic injectable fillers as a non-surgical approach or fat injections for more of a surgical procedure. While successful at creating a temporal augmentation effect, the cost and lack of persistence of injectable fillers and the unpredictability Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Upper Ear Vertical Reduction

Background: Vertical reduction of the ear is an uncommon otoplasty procedure as it is infrequently requested. It is best known and used in the treatment of macrotia where the entire ear is very large and vertically long. Macrotia reduction most commonly uses a ‘high and low’ technique where the upper helix (high) and the earlobe Read More…

Cupid’s Bow Reduction of the Upper Lip

Unlike the lower lip the shape of the upper lip is marked by the cupid’s bow area. Occupying the central third of the upper lip, its two raised peaks at the end of the philtral columns create a double bow effect. This lip feature is well known and has the cupid’s bow name because its Read More…

The Ladder Technique in Temporal Artery Ligations

Unaesthetic bulging vessels in the temporal region at the side of the forehead are caused by the anterior branch of the superficial temporal artery. Why it gets enlarged is not precisely known although it appears to occur almost exclusively in men. Its enlargement is clearly related to increased blood flow as the vessel becomes most Read More…