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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Thin Teenage Gynecomastia Reduction

Background: The development of breast tissue is very common as a result in puberty for many teenagers. While it occurs with greater frequency and amounts in teens with more weight, it can also even occur in very thin males. In some cases it is almost more bothersome or noticeable in thin teenagers because they have Read More…

Technical Strategies – Temporal Reduction in Head Narrowing Surgery

A head that is too wide is marked by excessive convexity in the posterior temporal region above the ears. Often the width of the skin (even without hair) may stick out as much as the projection of the ear…and in some cases even more than that of the ear. There is no question that the Read More…

The Step-Off Deformity in a Sliding Genioplasty

The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin reshaping procedure. Unlike its cousin, the chin implant, it has a much greater versatility than simply increasing horizontal projection alone. It can be done to create a multidimensional effect from increasing or shortening vertical height, increasing or dereasing chin width and in some cases even moving the Read More…

Update on the Corset Platysmaplasty Neck Lift

The neck is one of the primary reasons that patients present for some form of faciial rejuvenation. It is not rare that such aging patients only wants a ‘necklift’ and not a fuller ‘facelift’, even though they rarely understand the difference between these two procedures or facial rejuvenation concepts. There are a wide variety of Read More…

MIcrocannulas for Injectable Lip Augmentation

The lips are one of the most unique areas of the face to be treated by injectable fillers. The lips are extremely soft and supple, have a high number of nerve endings and are the most frequently touched part of the entire face. They also have a somewhat complex shape to them and undergo a Read More…

Technical Strategies – Cartilage Spreader Grafts in Primary Rhinoplasty

The middle third of the nose is usually viewed as a mere bridge between the top of the nose and the tip. But it actually has a very significant functional purpose as what lies beneath it and is created by it is the internal nasal valves. Formed by the junction of the septum and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Combined Tummy Tuck and Brazilian Butt Lift

Background: Two of the most popular body contouring procedures today is one from the past and a relatively new one. Tummy tuck surgery has been around for over five decades and is highly successful at reshaping the abdominal wall often in a dramatic fashion. Conversely, buttock augmentation by fat injections (aka Brazilian Butt Lift) has Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Natural Breast Augmentation with Shaped Implants

Background: Breast augmentation is an operation whose effect is completely derived from the use of an implant. The push of the implant on the overlying breast tissue creates the size and to some degree the shape of the breast that results. While a women’s natural breast tissues do play a role in how the augmented Read More…

Old Age and Wound Healing in Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery today is done literally from head to toe and from the ages of soon after birth to octogenarians. Like never before older patients are undergoing non-surgical and surgical procedures for face and even body enhancements. When a plastic surgeon or a patient is considering surgery in these ‘advanced’ years it would seem Read More…

Technical Strategies – Muscle Resuspension in Vertical Chin Reduction

While a short chin is both common and easily treated by an implant or bony in most cases, the long or big chin is a much more challenging aesthetic issue. The tissue excess over the front end of the lower jaw makes its reduction fraught with problems of redundancy and potential tissue sag. Where does Read More…