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Tummy Tucks – Different Types for Different Problems

The tummy tuck operation is one of the traditional and commonly performed body contouring procedures. It is most simplistically envisioned as the removal of loose skin and fat from the lower abdomen to create a flatter stomach albeit with the trade-off of a horizontal scar. While this is basically true there are many variations of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Neograft Hair Restoration System

Hair transplantation is an historic procedure that is done very much today as it was decades ago. While the number of grafts transplanted in a single session has increased over the years, from a few hundred to thousands in a single session, the fundamental concept of moving individual hairs from the back or sides of Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Original Nosejob

The desire to change or make up a new nose has been around for a long time. The first recorded nose job is written in the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts around 600 BC. Doctor would reconstruct noses by taking a strip of skin from the forehead or cheeks, twisting the skin side over a Read More…

Fat Injections in the Treatment of Facial Aging

The use of one’s own fat for the correction of a variety of aesthetic and reconstructive soft tissue needs in plastic surgery is now more than just a fad. It has rapidly become an established technique even though much of the science as to how it works, and sometimes does not work, is far from Read More…

Case Study: Implant Augmentation in Calf Asymmetry in Clubfoot

Background: Augmentation of deficient calf muscles is done for a variety of reasons. These include naturally small calfs, in bodybuilders who want their calfs to match the muscular look of the rest of their body and for congenital leg defects in which calf muscle development is small and ill-defined either on one leg or both Read More…

Calf Augmentation with Fat Injections

The shape of the lower third of the leg is highlighted by the appearance of the calfs. Whether they are big, small or somewhere in between, they are the dominant shape between the knee and ankle. The shape of the calfs is largely controlled by the size of the paired medial and lateral heads of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom – The Recovery Process

It is very common and understandable that patients right after just about any form of plastic surgery begin to assess their results. Even though they are told by their plastic surgeon to avoid trying to make any early assessment of the results in the face of swelling, bruising and lack of any implant/tissue settling, many Read More…

Case Study: Transconjunctival Lower Eyelid Bag Removal in Women

Background: Aging of the eyes takes on many predictable changes and one of those is the development of herniated fat. As the name implies, this is fat that has been historically believed to be once was under the eye that has relocated out onto or bulges over the lower orbital rim. Known as eye bags, Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know: The Need for Strong Male Jawlines

A strong jawline has been deemed as both a desireable and attractive male facial feature for millenia. A strong male jawline is not a passing fad or temporary fashion statement. It has been and always will be an important feature of a male face. Everyone knows that a strong jawline implies increased masculinity and increased Read More…

Case Study: Facelift with Chin-Prejowl Augmentation

Background: Aging of the face takes on many predictable changes but none is more evident than what occurs along the jawline. The once more discernible and sharp jawline becomes lost as jowls appear and the neck sags. The neck angle becomes more obtuse, the chin may appear shorter, and the transition between the face and Read More…