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Case Study: Vertical Ear Reduction (Macrotia Surgery)

Background: Otoplasty is a common aesthetic surgery for ear reshaping which very successfully corrects a protruding ear problem. From incisions behind the ear, a cartilage fold is created by sutures that pulls the helical rim backward reducing its outer prominence and lessening the aurioculomastoid angle. While ears that stick out often look big, they usually Read More…

Case Study: Eyelid Lifts (Blepharoplasty) in the Older Male

Background: Aging begins around the eyes early in life and continues unabated up through one’s senior years. This periorbital aging is manifested by the creation of extra eyelid skin which is caused by the stretching of the thin eyelid skin due to frequent movement. As the redundant eyelid skin becomes excessive it weighs down the Read More…

Treatment of Greater Auricular Nerve Injuries from Facelift Surgery

Facelifts are common facial rejuvenation surgeries that are associated with relatively few minor after surgery problems. (e.g., tightness and banding) Many of these issues are self solving with time as tissues heal and relax. One issue that may not improve with time is a nerve injury. While the greatest fear of nerve injury from a Read More…

Plastic Surgery in the Trenches

While plastic surgery today is associated with images of rejuvenated faces and enhanced breasts and buttocks, its origins and history is associated with a bit more nobler objective. From the trenches of World War I came the need to reconstruct faces torn and shattered from warfare wounds. It was the absolute horrors of war that Read More…

Five Things You Did Not Know About Brow Bone Reduction

Brow bone reduction is often aesthetically necessitated when the frontal sinus air cavities become too large. This is almost exclusively a male problem since the development of the frontal sinuses is highly related to levels of circulating testosterone and growth hormone during development. As a result, it is often associated with other strong facial bone Read More…

Combining Liposuction and Arm Lifts – The Brachiolipoplasty Procedure

Arm lift or brachioplasty surgery had become very popular in the past decade, largely due to the preponderence of bariatric and weight loss surgery. While many women would like to have smaller and more shapely arms, liposuction remains the only surgical technique of arm reshaping in most non-weight loss patients due to the scar from Read More…

The Value of Computer Imaging in Plastic Surgery

While the contemplation of having plastic surgery and receiving physical enhancements can be exciting, it can also be intimidating as well. While there are many aspects of undergoing surgery that can potentially go awry, one of the most basic is in the front end of the process…the initial consultation and presurgical planning. How does one Read More…

Liposuction and Fat Cell Biology – Are The Results Maintained? Part 2

Fat cells are well known to release a large of cytokines (adipokines) that help regulate energy homeostasis and overall body fat mass. (leptin, tumor necrosis factor and many others) Leptin, for example, is a hormone produced by fat cells to help regulate body energy balance. Higher levels of leptin release favors energy burning rather than Read More…

Liposuction and Fat Cell Biology – Are The Results Maintained? Part 1

Much of body contouring surgery employs well known methods of liposuction whose effectiveness is based on the removal of fat cells and their lipid contents. While lipoaspiration is highly successful in the short-term, as evidenced by endless before and after pictures from plastic surgeons, patients understandably want to know what is it’s long-term effects. In Read More…

Infection Complications from Overseas Plastic Surgery

Medical tourism, specifically getting plastic surgery outside of the U.S., continues to gain in popularity. Lower costs are the obvious reason and many procedures may be as much as 50% less than in the States, often more. While there is no doubt that quality plastic surgery is available abroad and, in some cases it may Read More…