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Product Review – Radiesse Plus Injectable Filler

Radiesse is a semi-permanent injectable filler that has been in clinical use for over a decade since its initial FDA approval inj 2004.. It is unique amongst injectable fillers because of its composition and mechanism of action. It is composed of approximately 30% calcium hydroxyapatite spheres contained in a 70% aqueous gel carrier. The Read More…

Case Study – Early Age Otoplasty for Protruding Ears

ackground: The ear is made up of a complex array of ridges and depressions in a very small anatomic area. The dominant features of the ear is the external helical ridge with an internal antihelical ridge, both of which surround the bowl of the ear (concha) which surrounds the ear canal. Normally the outer helix Read More…

Case Study – Breast Augmentation under Local Anesthesia

Background: Breast augmentation is the most popular body contouring procedure and is most commonly done under general anesthesia. Given that most breast implants, saline and silicone alike, are placed in the partial submuscular plane, the use of general anesthesia provides the most comfortable intraoperative patient experience. It is hard to imagine lifting up the pectoralis Read More…

Case Study – Long Terms Effects of Tummy Tuck Surgery

Background: Tummy tuck surgery can be an incredibly effective body contouring procedure. It achieves its effects through the removal of a large segment of loose skin and fat often combined with liposuction fat removal in areas beyond the zone of the cut out tissue segment. The benefits of tummy tucks can easily be seen Read More…

The Benefits Of Corticosteroids In Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty is one of the most commonly performed aesthetic facial surgery procedures and is one of the oldest as well. It has great success at reshaping the nose but every patient hates to undergo the inevitable swelling and bruising that is well known to accompany the procedure. In many cases the bruising under the Read More…

Technical Strategies – Perfusion Holes in Custom Skull Implants

Aesthetic cranioplasty often involves the coverage of large skull areas with alloplastic material. Whether it be PMMA or hydroxyapatite cements or with today’s custom 3D generated silicone implants, a fairly large amount of material can serve as a solid interface between the overlying scalp and the underlying cranial bone. As the scalp has an excellent Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Hip Augmentation by Fat Injections

Background: The hips are an important part of a female’s body and their shape is often very gender specific…women’s are curved while men are straight. To be specific, the hips refer to the anatomic region overlying the hip or femur-pelvic joint. It is located to the sides of the buttocks but below the iliac crest Read More…

Minimal Incision Chin Augmentation

Chin augmentation using synthetic materials is both the most historic facial implant procedure and still the most commonly done. This is evidenced in that chin implants have the largest number of styles and sizes commercially available of any facial implant manufactured today. Chin implants are inserted by incisions either from the inside of the mouth Read More…

Lifestyle Lift Company Suspends Business Operations

The Lifestyle Lift is a fairly well known cosmetic procedure due to extensive marketing and long-term branding efforts. It represents one of the few plastic surgery operations that has become ‘franchised’ and turned into a medical commodity of sorts. This is very different and much more difficult than what occurs with drugs and devices Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Helical Rim Earlobe Reduction

Background: The ear has the most complex shape of any facial feature with its many convolutions and ridges. But because it is on the side of the head, it is not scrutinized as easily that of the eyes, nose and lips. The size of the ear is often overlooked unless it has abnormally big or Read More…