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Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) – How Does It Work?

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injections have come into vogue to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. It has also become popular in aesthetic surgery as part of the ever expanding number of non-surgical and minimally invasive treatment options. Since PRP is a blood extract it is perceived as a natural healing and rejuvenative therapy. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Tail of Brow Bone Reduction

Background: Reduction or augmentation of the brow bones is typically thought of as a horizontal change in their prominence. Such movements create more or less of a brow bone prominence most easily seen and appreciated in a lateral or side view. Such degrees of horizontal brow bone prominence is very gender-specific and is the motivation Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Ethnic Rhinoplasty

Background: The wide variety of nose shapes that exist around the world have been attempted to be classified by multiple approaches. One type of nasal shape classification, known as leptorrhine, mesorrhine and platyrrhine, are based on the nasal indices. The nasal index is the ratio of the widest part of the nose to its length Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Sientra Textured Shaped Silicone Breast Implants

Background: After fifty years breast implants have gone through many evoutions and filler material and shell designs. In silicone breast implants the latest design innovation is that of the shaped or anatomic implant. It is also called a tear drop breast implant as well. Like that of a natural aging breast a greater percentage of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Fat Grafting after Breast Implant Removal

Background: Breast implants provide a volume enhancement to the breasts that in many cases will last a lifetime. While no breast implants last forever, most women choose to replace them when that need occurs. But a few women eventually choose to remove their breast implants due to problems such as capsular contracture, pain and implant Read More…

The Extended Anterior Temporal Implant

Temporal hollowing is often perceived as as sign of aging but also can occur due to genetics, disease or surgery. While the aesthetic interpretation of concave temporal areas is a personal one, many people prefer a more full temporal region. This could be making the temples less hollow or all the way to a convex Read More…

Technical Strategies – Microscrew Fixation of Facial Implants

Facial implants offer a permanent solution to many desired areas of skeletal augmentation such as the chin, jaw angles and cheeks. There are many factors that go into a successful facial implant augmentation outcome from the preoperative planning, style and size of the implant, implant placement and last, but not least, implant stability. Prevention of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long-Term Results in Pretrichial Browlift

Background: Like the rest of the face the brows and forehead tissues do fall or go south with age. Besides the horizontal forehead lines and vertical glabellar wrinkles, the lowering of the brows is the most noticeable feature of aging of the upper third of the face. Sagging of the brows, as defined by where Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Forehead Augmentation

Background: Like the rest of the face, the appearance of the forehead is very gender specific. A female forehead usually has three specific components to it. First there is no perceptible brow bone ridge or brow bone break into the forehead. It is smooth as it ascends from the supraorbital rims into the upper Read More…

Botox Injections Using Ultra Small Needles

Botox injections into various areas of the face are tremendously effective at reducing specific wrinkle areas, particularly around the eyes and forehead. While effective they are not necessarily pain-free. Despite using a very small 30 gauge size needle, some discomfort still exists with Botox injections. This has led to a variety of pain management Read More…