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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Sliding Genioplasty and Submentoplasty for Limited Primary Chin Implant Results

Background: Chin augmentation is a commonly performed aesthetic facial procedure for which an implant offers a simple solution. While effective for some the dissatisfaction with chin implant surgery is not insignificant. Many a chin implant have been successfully placed, as defined by a non-infected postoperative course (surgical success), but the patient did not achieve their Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Female Two Stage Skull Augmentation for Small Head

Background: The size and shape of the head is influenced by a variety of congenital and developmental influences on its bony framework. It is a unique bony structure of the body because it fundamentally acts as a large hollow encasement. Provided there is enough space for adequate brain development the specific dimensions and shape of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long Term Appearance of the Clavicles in Shoulder Reduction Surgery

Background: The immediate success of shoulder reduction is one of a consistent improvement that patients see as a good aesthetic improvement. Such a reductive shoulder shape change is seen immediately after surgery and is not affected by postoperative swelling which is at the inner half of the clavicle. This makes clavicle reduction surgery unique in Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vermilion Advancement in the Short Pencil-Shaped Upper Lip

Background: Lip augmentation is one of the most common female facial enhancements. It is by far most commonly done by injection methods whether it is by synthetic fillers or fat. The success of such volume addition is dependent on how much vermilion show is present. If the vermilion is height is small or vertically short Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transfemale Shoulder Reduction and Rib Removal Combined Surgery

Background: While there are many bony structural procedures of the face, there are very few on the body. Those that do exist, however, are bony in nature and consist of shoulder, rib and iliac bony changes. In the transfemale patient population in particular shoulder and waist reductions are desired to help create more body contour Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long Term Results of Custom HTR Implant Augmentation of the Flat Back of the Head

Background: Aesthetic skull augmentation can be done by a variety of materials which can be divided into rigid and semi-rigid physical properties. Silicone is the most commonly used of the materials as its semi-rigid forms allows for introduction through smaller incisions, can be designed in almost any shape and thickness and has feathered edges. These Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Climbing The Ladder in Type 2 Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline/Torso Narrowing

Background: Rib removal is the final and definitive procedure for waist narrowing when the patient is seeking a result beyond what standard body contouring surgery can achieve. The traditional rib removal surgery focuses on the bottom two or free floating ribs as they lie adjacent to the waistline and their cartilaginous tips are the point Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Infraorbital-Malar Implants for Eye-Cheek Asymmetry

Background: Midface augmentation consists of a variety of standard implants from that of the cheeks, tear troughs and nasal base. (premaxillary and paranasal) What custom designs bring to this area of the face is infraorbital, infraornital-malar and a variety of broader coverage midface implants. The infraorbital-malar (IOM) implant is the most common of all the Read More…

Experience with the Submuscular Buttock Implant Technique

Implants are the definitive buttock augmentation option in patients with inadequate fat harvest sites or who have had inadequate BBL (fat injection) results. The placement of buttock implants can be done in three different pocket locations, above the muscle (subfascial), inside the muscle (intramuscular) and below the muscle. (submuscular) No buttock implant pocket location is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Prominent Nuchal Ridge Bony Reduction with Scalp Roll Excision in Back of Head Reshaping

Background: The back of the head is prone to variety of aesthetic shape deformations, some of them flattening and others of a protrusive nature. For the protrusions there are some well known occipital bone-based ones including knobs and buns. These are circular enlargements that have a midline origin to them. They are essentially enlargements of Read More…