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Plastic Surgery Case Study: Visual Obstruction Treated By Browlift And Blepharoplasties

Background: Changes around the eyes are the earliest signs of facial aging. As a result, the ongoing aging effects often creates severe changes around the eyes as one enters their sixties. Besides the excess skin of the upper eyelids and the lower eyelid bags, the eyebrows often sag downward magnifying the hooding effect on the Read More…

Complications in Rib Graft Rhinoplasty

While rhinoplasty is a very common aesthetic facial procedure around the world, most do not require a large amount of cartilage grafting. But certain types of augmentative rhinoplasties in some ethnic groups do (e.g., Asian noses) and only the ribs can supply an unlimited amount of donor cartilage. While some rhinoplasty surgeons feel very comfortable Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Occipital Bone Augmentation with Neck Fat Injections

Background: One of the most common aesthetic skull deformities is a flat back of the head. Caused by either genetics or external deformational forces in utero or after birth, the lack of adequate projection in the occiput can be aesthetically disturbing to some people. While often camouflaged by hair, it can still be a concern Read More…

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…