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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Eyelid Lift (Blepharoplasty) Surgery

Eyelid lifts or tucks are one of the most successful and commonly performed of all the anti-aging or facial rejuvenation procedures. While the number of eyelids outnumber any other facial structure, the number of eyelid surgeries performed is also due to the early onset of bothersome and visible aging which takes its earliest effect Read More…

Injectable Fillers vs Fat Transposition Blepharoplasty for the Tear Trough Deformity

The tear trough is a natural depression that runs from the inner aspect of the eye down along the infraobital rim, usually stopping at about a vertical line drawn down from the pupil of the eye. With aging, it becomes deeper and more visible and then becomes known as the tear trough deformity. Extending from Read More…

Scar Revision Strategies in Hypertrophic vs Keloid Scars

While scars have a negative connotation due to the imperfect appearance of the skin, they are a normal result of most injuries and surgeries. This is part of the wound healing process and their appearance (or perpetuation) is the expected result of this dynamic process. It is only deviations from normal wound healing, hypertrophic scars Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Missing Element in Jawline Enhancement

A strong jawline is a well known perceived desirable facial feature. While an obvious aesthetic asset in men, it is even so in women as long as the chin does not protrude too much. What what makes up a nice and well defined jawline? The jawline comes from the mandible or lower jaw which is Read More…

Five Misconceptions About Facelifts

The facelift procedure is one of the most recognizable operations in all of plastic surgery. Between the historic belief that all facelifts result in a ‘windblown’ or overdone look to the well advertised Lifestyle Lift of today, facelift surgery carries with it many perceptions and opinions…many of which are either blatantly wrong or misinformed. Read More…

Nasal Lengthening in the Asian Nose

Rhinoplasty in the Asian nose is well know to be an augmentation operation, raising the bridge of the nose and increasing tip projection. Together these changes fundamentally increase nasal length which is measured as the distance from the nasion to the tip-defining point. Besides nasal length, other measurements used to define the short nose including Read More…

Case Study: Lip Advancement for Lip Asymmetry

Background: The size and shape of the lips is controlled by many factors. But one of the most important is the pink part of the lip known as the vermilion. The size of the lips is largely controlled by the vermilion height of the vermilion. (lip line out to the skin edge or vermilion-cutaneous junction) Read More…

Nanofat Grafting for Skin Rejuvenation

Fat grafting has been around for over fifty years but has reached present day popularity due to the introduction of liposuction for harvest, droplet injection techniques and the discovery of adipose-derived stem cells. Fat injection grafting is mainly used to create more volume in the face and body for a variety of aesthetic and reconstructive Read More…

Case Study: Female Jawline Implant Augmentation

Background: An underdeveloped jaw or mandible has been historically treated by chin and jaw angle implants. A chin implant enhances the front part of the jaw while jaw angle implants augment the posterior part of the jaw. While these types of facial implants are tremendously effective at augmenting the two obvious prominences of the jaw, Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Juvederm Voluma XC Injectable Filler

Injectable fillers are the other half of injection treatments (Botox is the other half) that have revolutioned the approach to facial. Evolving from the first FDA-approved injectable filler in 2002 (Restylane), there are now over a dozen different facial fillers from various manufacturers. The latest filler options have become focused on filling a specific type Read More…