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Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Golden Ratio

The search for what makes a face beautiful or attractive goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. Long before the possibilities of plastic surgery were even remotely envisioned, painters and sculptors used mathematical numbers and rations to create their works. Numerous contemporary studies have both qualified and quantified ‘beauty’ and have been able to Read More…

Subfascial vs. Intramuscular Buttock Implants

Buttock augmentation has gained tremendous popularity as a surgical procedure in just the past decade. This has largely been due to the use of fat injections for buttock augmentation, an approach that offers a diametric effect with enlargement of one body area (injection site) and reduction of many other body areas (liposuction harvest) during the Read More…

Case Study – Custom Jaw Angle Implants For Reconstruction after Orthognathic Surgery

Background: The angle of the jaw is a unique facial bone area as its shape is highly influenced by the natural development of the jaw and the masseter-pterygoid muscle sling which is attached to it. It is the most recognized are of the ramus portion of the mandible.Regardless of the actual angle shape, it always Read More…

The Value of the Alar Rim Graft in Rhinoplasty

The shape of the nostrils and the overlying nostril rims has taken on increased interest in rhinoplasty surgery and its outcomes. Much of this interest in driven by patients who may after a rhinoplasty feel that they show too much of a nostril opening or have nostril asymmetry with one rim of the nostril higher Read More…

Product Review – Emend in Plastic Surgery for Nausea and Vomiting Prevention

While patients have many different fears about having surgery, one of the most common is postop nausea and vomiting afterwards. (PONV) While this is a concern regardless of the type of surgery, it is of paramount importance in cosmetic surgery because it is completely elective. For some this concern may even make them think more Read More…

Counterfeit Botox in the U.S. Alert

Botox injection therapy is the single greatest pharmacologic agent in use today for non-surgical facial rejuvenation. It has been become so popular and used that patients talk about getting ‘Botoxed’…reminiscent of days when copying was known as ‘Xeroxing’. That is how you know your product has worked its way into the national lexicon when Read More…

Case Study: Sliding Genioplasty for Lower Facial Elongation

Background: A sliding genioplasty is a well known and historic procedure for changing the shape of the chin. It was originally described in the 1940s but has evolved considerably due to the use of rigid fixation using plates and screws. While once clever osteotomy designs and wire fixation methods were used for stabilization of the Read More…

Product Review – Exilis Elite for Cellulite Treatment

Cellulite is a well recognized aesthetic skin condition that occurs most commonly in women and involves the buttocks and thighs. The cottage cheese appearance is recognized today to be the result of compartmentalized fat hypertrophy and the contraction of dermal-fascial bands in the involved regions. New device based treatments continue to emerge for its treatment Read More…

PRP Injections for Periorbital Hyperpigmentation

Darkening of the eyelids, known as periorbital hyperpigmentation, is when excess pigment develops on the eyelids. While it can occur on either the upper and lower eyelids, and often involves both, it is most common and aesthetically troublesome on the lower eyelids. Its causes is not exactly known and is multifactorial and has been ascribed Read More…

Case Study – Tongue Tie Release in Adults

Background: Tongue tie or ankyloglossia is a well recognized congenital anomaly of the tongue. It results from a restriction or lack of development of the lingual frenulum which is a membranous attachment from the underside of the tongue to the anterior floor of the mouth. When the frenulum is short the tip of the Read More…