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Tracheal Shave Neck Contouring

The reduction of a prominent Adam’s Apple through a procedure known as a tracheal or laryngeal shave has been in the news lately. Former Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner has recently made headlines for purportedly undergoing the procedure and the tabloids have suggested that he may be in a transitional state to becoming a women. Read More…

Nasal Surgery in Children and Young Teens

Nasal surgery has traditionally been a procedure that has been reserved for later teenagers and adults when the development of the nose is complete. Since the septum of the nose is the main driving force for the growth of the nose, any manipulations were felt to result in subsequent deviations or arrest of nasal Read More…

Case Study: Sliding Genioplasty For Increased Projection and Vertical Shortening of the Chin

Background: Chin deficiences are common and are usually satisfactorily treated by an implant augmentation method. While implants are good for mild to moderate short chin problems, they often are not adequate for a chin that has a more significant horizontal deficiency that is accompanied by other dimensional abnormalities. Moving the symphysis of the mandible, known Read More…

Case Study – Custom Temporal Implants for Head Widening

Background: The head has a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Like the face, there are certain head shapes that are more pleasing than others. While one knows intuitively whether they like their head shape or not, there are certain measurements of height and width of the head that can help classify its beauty or Read More…

Recipient Site Behavior of Fat Grafting

Fat grafting has become a very popular method of soft tissue augmentation. While it is not always completely effective due to post-transplant absorption, it is always very safe given the natural composition of the graft. When effective the initial augmentation result can be quite good but its long-term effects are not really known given its Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Funnel 2 Device for Breast Augmentation

Breast augmentation requires the insertion of an implant through an almost always smaller incision than the size of the implant. This is not an issue with saline breast implants since they are inserted in a rolled fashion and inflated once in place. But silicone breast implants must be placed fully filled and their placement through Read More…

Non-Invasive Body Contouring with the Vanquish Device

Non-invasive body contouring devices have been around for almost a hundred years and, historically, most were more gimmick than effective. But the past decade has seen a new generation of body contouring devices that actually have science behind them and do offer some fat reduction benefits. While all such current devices are different, they are Read More…

Ear Reduction Surgery for Macrotia

The most common aesthetic ear problem is that of the protruding ears. Caused by either the lack of a well defined ear fold or too big of an inner concha, a good ear shape can be obtained by a variety of traditional otoplasty techniques. While the protruding ear often appears to be too big, it Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Bichat’s Fat Pad and Buccal Lipectomy Surgery

The buccal lipectomy is a well known procedure that is done in certain patients for a cheek slimming effect. It is unique amongst most fat removal procedures in plastic surgery because it involves removal of fat within a surrounding capsule. (the only other procedure is the removal of the fad pads in blepharoplasty surgery) The Read More…

Case Study: Custom Vertical Lengthening Jawline Implant

Background: One of the original facial implants ever made was for a short chin. Chin implants are the oldest facial implant used and can do a job of lengthening a wide variety of horizontal chin/jaw deficiences. Other jaw deficiences in the angle area on the back end of the jaw can also be augmented by Read More…