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The Aesthetics of the Chin and Its Relationship to the Face

The chin creates the dominant effect on the appearance of the lower face. Thus, it has a major effect on facial balance and appearance. When out of proportion to the rest of the face, it can create a perception that other facial features are the culprit when it is really at fault. Understanding the proper Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Shape of the Eyebrows

The one patch of hair that both male and female share are the eyebrows. With few exceptions, everyone is born with a pair of them. Their functional role in mammals is to protect the eye from water and debris from above. But humans go to great lengths to modify their natural hair pattern. Unlike the Read More…

The Role of the Radix in Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty surgery can change many structural elements of one’s nose. With nearly twenty different cartilage, bone and soft tissue components of the nose, a great diversity of nasal changes is possible. With so many contributing elements, it can be difficult at times to predict how changing one nasal area will affect how others will Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Science of Facial Beauty

The concept of beauty has changed over time and does vary amongst different cultures. But the basic tenets of beauty, proportion and symmetry, are timeless and unchanging. Thousands of years ago Nefertiti was considered the most beautiful of all women with her arched brows, high cheekbones, and slim nose. In the 1950s, Grace Kelly was Read More…

Breast Augmentation Outcomes and Incision Choice

The success of breast augmentation is influenced by a wide variety of surgical technique factors. No one single technical maneuver has been shown to be necessarily more important other than the submuscular placement of the implant, which has been shown to reduce numerous after surgery risks. When one looks at the relatively high incidence of Read More…

Otoplasty as Elimination of One Source of Bullying

One of the historic physical features that commonly leads to teasing and ridicule is that of the ears that stick out too far. Known as ‘dumbo’. ‘elephant ears’ and other equally unflattering names, ears that project too far away from the side of the head causes a child or an adult to look different. Undergoing Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? Aging Eye Treatment Options

The eyes are always the first area of the face that begins to show the effects of age. They are also the most easily perceived as they are continuously viewed in conversational interactions. But of the many aging eye features that will develop, which is best treated by surgery and which are better treated by Read More…

Case Study: Removal of A Large Chin Mole

Background:Moles are very common skin manifestations. These well known and recognized colorations are concentrated collections of pigment cells in the skin that have coalesced to create a visible growth. Almost everyone has at least one and most people have an assortment of them located randomly throughout their body. The face is a common location for Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The 5 Minute Injectable Facelift

The treatment of facial aging has a new twist. Rather than lifting and removing loose skin in a traditional facelift procedure, the concept of adding rather than subtracting has gained some notoriety. The ‘5 Minute Facelift’ employs injectable fillers to add substance to facial areas that have undergone structural changes due to volume loss. Areas Read More…

The Role of the Exilis Device In Fat Reduction and Skin Tightening

The desire for fat reduction is ubiquitous and a large number of methods exist from dieting to surgery to achieve it. While liposuction and bariatric surgery are all effective means of fat removal and weight reduction respectively, they are not equivalent and have very different outcomes. But they do share the similarity of being invasive Read More…