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Plastic Surgery Humor – Non-Invasive Abdominal Etching

This is is the fastest way that I know that the ‘six-pack’ abdominal look can be achieved…even if it is not permanent. But what creates those stomach lines that many of us envy and would like to have and the fence wires have created? Those are known as the abdominal inscriptions. These are tendinous Read More…

Case Study: Sliding Genioplasty with Implant Overlay for Chin Implant Replacement

Background: Chin augmentation is the most common implant enhancement procedure of the face. It is usually highly successful as long as the chin is not horizontally too short. Once horizontal chin deficiences approach 10mms or more, it will also have other dimensional issues as well being also vertically short.Trying to make a chin implant Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Fat Atrophy after Trauma

A common observation in blunt traumatic injuries of the face and body that have resulted in large bruises or hematomas (blood collections) is that soft tissue or contour depressions may appear many months later. This is confusing to patients as they do not know why it occurs since they did not have a laceration or Read More…

Blepharoplasty with Fat Injections

The most common procedure for rejuvenation of the periorbital area is surgical blepharoplasty. Removing skin from the upper and lower eyelids as well as fat mainly from the lower eyelid can make the eyes appear refreshed and more open. But tissue excess is not the exclusive problem that occurs around the eyes as they age. Read More…

Case Study: Two-Stage Approach for Large Onlay Skull Augmentations

Background: While there are many different cosmetic skull shape deformities, one of the most common is that of a flat back of the head. The slope of the back of head can be flat either in a completely vertical plane (lack of posterior projection) but most commonly is more of an exaggerated slope from the Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Pectoralis Muscle Atrophy after Breast Augmentation

The most common location for placing the implants in breast augmentation is under the muscle. What this means is that a pocket is made between the thicker outer pectoralis major muscle and the thinner underlying pectoralis minor muscle. When it comes to nerves in breast augmentation the most common concern is about nipple sensation and Read More…

The Need for Revisional Surgery in Combined Breast Lifts with Implants

It has been a repeated mantra of mine that the ultimate cosmetic breast reshaping operation, a combined breast lift with implants, has a high rate of ‘complications’ or need for revision. It is something that I repeatedly counsel women on before surgery. My stated rate of revisional surgery in augmentation mastopexy patients is potentially Read More…

The Anatomy of Temporal Implant Augmentation

Augmentation of the temporal region is a new area for synthetic facial implants. While every other facial implant designed is for bony augmentation, temporal implants provide enhancement of the soft tissue (muscle) region of the side of the forehead and eye. While injectable filler and fat provide a less invasive approach, they do not offer Read More…

Preoperative Implant Sizing Reduces Breast Augmentation Revisions

One issue that women gloss over in the consideration and planning of their breast augmentation is the potential need for revisional surgery. There are many reasons a breast implant revision may need to be done including infection, bleeding, implant malposition, asymmetry, capsular contracture and unhappiness with the size selection. In reading breast implant package inserts, Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…