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Is Arnica Montana Effective in Rhinoplasty for Reducing Postoperative Bruising?

Bruising after certain elective facial procedures is very common and expected. While well tolerated by patients, given that they have no choice, any reduction of its extent and duration would be appreciated. Rhinoplasty is one of those facial procedures that is well known to cause considerable bruising when osteotomies (breaking of the nasal bones) are Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Rib Graft Cleft Rhinoplasty

Background: Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common congenital facial deformities. While much focus is on the lip, alveolus and palate, the nose is equally affected as well. While the nose may not be ‘clefted’, deformity underneath it causes a variety of septal, turbinate and nasal cartilage and bone structural alterations. Management Read More…

Aesthetic Outcomes of Facial Scar Revisions

Scar revision is an important technique and part of plastic surgery. Many traumatic and sometimes surgical scars do not heal as desired and may benefit from a scar revision procedure. While much ado is made of laser resurfacing of scars for improvement, the reality is that many poorly formed scars will benefit by actual excision Read More…

Misconceptions of the Buccal Lipectomy Procedure

One of the techniques to help create a thinner face is that of a buccal lipectomy procedure. Because it is the largest collection of encapsulated fat on the face and its extraction is a straightforward and uncomplicated procedure, it is an easy target when it comes to facial slimming efforts. Despite that the buccal lipectomy Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Jumping Genioplasty for Severe Chin/Jaw Recession

Background: A sliding genioplasty is the most well known of all the facial osteotomies and also the most commonly performed. It is done for various chin augmentation and reshaping purposes. It if often compared to a chin implant and doctors often tout one versus the other for aesthetic chin augmentation. But the reality is that Read More…

Upper Lift for Tip Elevation in the Aging Nose

Aging affects all facial tissues to some degree including the nose. The effects of time on the nose occurs at the nasal tip where the cartilages are help up by ligaments to the cartilage structures of the middle value. The effects of age on the nasal tip are that some increased droop can occur as Read More…

Male Transpalpebral Browlift Using Endotine Fixation

Correction/repositioning of sagging brows is done by well known browlift procedures. The vast majority of browlift surgeries are done in women with access to do the procedure coming from above in and behind the frontal hairline. The three different female browlift techniques (coronal, pretrichial and endoscopic) are chosen based on forehead skin length and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Webbed Neck Correction Surgery

Background: A webbed neck, medically known as pterygium colli deformity, is a well known but rare congenital neck condition. Skin folds are present along the sides of the neck from the back of the head behind the ears down to the shoulders. The hairline often follows the skin folds in their upper part. It is Read More…

Lip Injections using Buccal Fat

Lip augmentation is a popular facial filling procedure that has been done by a wide variety of materials. Synthetic fillers, fat injection and implants have all be done with well known advantages and disadvantages. The perfect lip augmentation material, however, remains elusive Of all the known injectable fillers, fat has a high appeal but is Read More…

Technical Strategies – Diced Rib Graft Injection in Rhinoplasty

Primary or secondary correction of nasal bridge deformities is now well known to be corrected by injectable fillers. The use of hyaluronic acid-based (HA) injectable fillers provides a quick and very directed approach to a wide variety of nasal contour deformities. While effective, no HA filler to the nose provides a permanent contour correction in Read More…