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World of Plastic Surgery – Brazil

Brazil is the largest country in South America and is the fifth largest country in the world. It occupies in land mass almost half of all of South America and has more land than that of the continental United States. (minus Alaska and Hawaii) It is unique in many ways from its Portugese language Read More…

Fascial Suspension for Pubic Lifts

While there are numerous body areas that can be changed through excisional lifts, particularly after large amounts of weight loss, the most common area treated is that of the waistline. Tummy tucks and body lifts (circumferential lipectomy) make up the most well known and largest surface area removal procedures. Often overlooked (but ultimately not by Read More…

Technical Strategies – Flange Fixation of Displaced Jaw Angle Implants

Jaw angle augmentation has become an increasingly popular facial implant procedure. While done more in men to enhance an overall weak jawline, it is even done in females who have thin lower faces and lack of any jaw angle width. While historically jaw angle implants only added width to the back part of the Read More…

Treatment of Buttock Implant Displacement

Buttock implant augmentation has historically been plagued by a high rate of complications. Since the intramuscular technique for implant location was introduced in the mid-1990s, the rate of complications has decreased and more natural and long-term results have been obtained. Its advantages over the subfascial location has led to more patients considering the procedure although Read More…

Technical Strategies – Combining Chin Implant and Sliding Genioplasty for Large Chin Augmentations

Chin augmentation can be done by a variety of surgical methods including a chin implant and a sliding genioplasty. Each of these aesthetic chin techniques has a role to play and they have their own advantages and disadvantages. But both have the same limitation…a limit to how much the chin can be horizontally projected. Chin Read More…

Case Study: Tummy Tuck for the Clefted Abdominal Pannus in a Hispanic Female

Background: A tummy tuck is one of the most common and successful body contouring procedures. Between pregnancies and weight loss, the development of loose skin and fat on the abdominal wall is inevitable for many women. This usually appears as a loose overhang on the lower abdomen that hangs like a hammock depending upon Read More…

Case Study: Custom Occipital Implant in a Hair Transplant Patient

Background: A flat back of the head, also known as occipital brachycephaly, is a not uncommon aesthetic skull shape concern. It may occur from the way one laid in utero, how they were positioned as an infant while sleeping or from a genetic tendency based on race. To those so afflicted with this skull shape Read More…

Case Study: Removal and Reconstruction of a Large Forehead Osteoma

Background: Bony raised bumps on the forehead are not rare and are known as osteomas. They occur due to the development of normal bone under the periosteum of the non-hair bearing forehead. They are benign overgrowths of bone that are non-mobile. They are thought to usually be initially associated with a perforating vein through the Read More…

Techniques and Outcomes in Forehead and Brow Feminization

Facial feminization surgery is a relatively recent plastic surgery procedure that has only been done since the late 1980s. It has been developed to address the need to modify masculine facial features for those with gender dysphoria who need to change their facial identity. As a result it is a well known need for Read More…

Tummy Tucks May Improve Urinary Incontinence

One of the most common body contouring operations after pregnancies and significant weight loss is the abdominoplasty or tummy tuck. The known benefits of tummy tucks lie in the change they bring to the shape of the abdomen and waistline. If the abdominal tissue cut out is big enough, patients may also see improvement in Read More…