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Early Fractional Laser Treatment Of Surgical Scars

Early treatment of scars by some method is certainly preferred by patients whether the scars  are from traumatic injury or elective aesthetic surgery. A variety of such scar strategies exist from topical gels and tapes to pulsed dye and ablative laser treatments. All of these methods have shown long-term scar appearance benefit with topical treatments Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Sliding Genioplasty Reversal

  Background: Chin augmentation can be done by using either an implant or actually moving the chin bone.  A chin implant is by far the most common genioplasty method because it is simpler, less invasive and easily reversible. While the sliding genioplasty method can be done alone, it is almost always used when other facial Read More…

Technical Strategies – Fat Injections for Lower Eyelid Ectropion

  Lower eyelid retraction, known as ectropion, occurs for a variety of reasons. The most common reasons are after an elective aesthetic lower blepharoplasty and/or midface lift or after repair of an orbital floor or cheek bone fracture. The lower eyelid retracts downward due to loss of support in one or several of its layers Read More…

Deep Vein Thrombosis Prevention in Elective Plastic Surgery

While any plastic surgery procedure has it own unique set of potential risks and complications, the overwhelming similarility of them is that they are aesthetic in nature. Rarely does undergoing plastic surgery expose one to significant risks of major medical complications. The one exception is that of venous thromboembolism. (DVT) Known as blood clots that Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? – Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day or St. Valentine’s is a sort of holiday that is celebrated in many countries around the world. Its occurrence is certainly not just limited to the United States. It has its origin in the Feast of Saint Valentine based on an early Christian Saint named Valentinus. Like some holidays and traditions, its actual Read More…

Incisional vs. Excisional Skin Otoplasty for Protruding Ears

Correction of prominent ears is an aesthetic surgery that has been done for over a hundred years. The anatomy of an otoplasty is relatively simple as there is just skin and cartilage associated with much of the ear. A wide variety of cartilage changing techniques have been used in otoplasty and they all can have Read More…

Technique for Deltoid Augmentation by Fat Injection

The treatment options for small shoulders or lack of adequate/desired deltoid muscle size has historically been the placement of implants. True deltoid implants as an off-the-shelf device does not exist due to lack of patient demand. But when a patient does request deltoid implants, they can be done using other modified body implants or they Read More…

Mid-Forehead Approach for Male Brow Bone Reduction

Reduction of the prominent brow bones can be done by two basic techniques and is done for different reasons/patient populations. (e.g., prominent male brow, part of facial feminization surgeries) The type of patient and the degree of brow bossing will determine the best surgical technique. In some cases augmentation of the forehead above the brow Read More…

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