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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposuction for Male Gynecomastia Reduction

Background: Gynecomastia, or male breast enlargement, occurs in a wide variety of forms and ages. While typically perceived as a condition that occurs in teens and young men as a reaction to elevated hormonal levels from puberty, gynecomastia occurs equally in older men as well. ‘Man boobs’ as they are often called can be an Read More…

Technical Strategies – Hydroxyapatite Block Grafting in Sliding Genioplasty

A sliding genioplasty is the autologous alternative to using a chin implant. It is done far less frequently than using implants for chin augmentation, and it should be, but it does have a defined role for lower facial augmentation. It is indicated for large chin movements which standard implants can not achieve, for young patients Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Knee and Calf Liposuction

Background: Liposuction is performed over many areas of the body, most commonly in the trunk region. (abdomen, chest and flanks) Its success is largely dependent on how well the overlying skin can retract after the underlying fat is removed. There are numerous types of liposuction that claim superior results if used. But the key to Read More…

The Effectiveness of Male Nipple Reduction

While men have nipples just like women, they serve no functional purpose. Men do not get pregnant nor do they have to breast feed so the role of the nipple-areolar complex is essentially decorative. While men may look peculiar if they did not have nipples, because we are used to seeing all humans with them, Read More…

Technical Strategies – Postauricular Approach for Head Widening Implants

Augmentation of the face through a variety of implants has been around for along time. Implant augmentation above the face on the skull bones is almost unheard of. Skull augmentations are much less commonly done, not only because they are less frequently requested, but because they are no implants made for them and surgical techniques Read More…

The Success of the Brazilian Butt Lift

Buttock augmentation is most commonly done today using fat injections. (aka Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL) It is popular because it not only offers a natural method of buttock enlargement but has a concomitant benefit of body contouring through the liposuction fat harvesting. Many good buttock augmentation results from this procedure are the result Read More…

The Custom Infraorbital Rim Implant

Tear troughs and deep grooves under the eyes are often the result of underdeveloped or a weak skeletal structure. Specifically these would be the inferior orbital rims and the anterior cheek bones which sit at the bottom of the lower eyelid and supports the upper cheek soft tissues. Treatment of undereye hollows and grooves is Read More…

Otoplasty in the Long Ear (Macrotia)

Prominent ears are the most common reason for an aesthetic otoplasty correction. There are numerous reasons that one has ears that stick out too far from the absence of the antihelical fold, a large concha or combinations thereof. The surgical techniques used to treat prominent ears are based on creating a more defined antihelical fold, Read More…

Technical Strategies – Brow Bone Reduction with Mid Forehead Nerve Sparing

Excessive brow bone protrusion, known as brow bone hypertrophy, is a well recognized phenomenon that is due to over pneumatization of the frontal sinus. While many people think that it is due to excessive bone growth, it is actually due to an over enlargement of the frontal sinus air cavity. This pushes out the air Read More…

MRI and Cancer Detection in Women with Breast Implants

When one combines the number of elective breast augmentations performed and the incidence of breast cancer occurrence, it is no surprise that the two would intersect. While ultrasound and mammography are excellent breast cancer screening tools they are not perfect and not every tumor will be detected. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well known Read More…