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President Obama’s Lip Repair and Monofilament Sutures

Today’s news was marked by the traumatic injury to President Obama while playing a pickup game of basketball. He was inadvertently elbowed in the mouth, resulting in a lip laceration. This type of sports injury, particularly in basketball, is not uncommon. The force of the elbow presses the lip against the solid bumper behind it Read More…

Case Study: Breast Augmentation in Indian Women

Background: Breast augmentation is one of the most common body plastic surgery procedures. At one time in the United States, the ethnicity of most of the women getting breast implants was largely Caucasian. But that has changed dramatically over the past two decades as the melting pot of the United States becomes more mixed Read More…

Otoplasty for Protruding Ears – A High Patient Satisfaction Procedure

Protruding ears are the most common aesthetic deformity of the external ear. Otoplasty is the operation for correction and is largely done in children and teenagers. While some may consider ears that stick out as a minor problem, children that have them do not as they are often exposed to teasing by others. This emotional Read More…

The Male Tummy Tuck after Massive Weight Loss

The tummy tuck, or abdominoplasty, operation is the most successful method of waistline contouring for many patients. It is an absolute must operation in three specific situations, in loose skin and muscle from multiple pregnancies, in the presence of an overhanging abdominal pannus, and after massive weight loss. While pregnancies is an exclusive female Read More…

Case Study: The Direct Necklift for Female Neck Wattles

Background:Changes in the neck is one of the most bothersome facial changes that occurs as one ages. A sagging neck can ‘grow’ into a really significant neck wattle by the time one reaches their sixties and seventies. When the neck sags to this degree, it literally flops from side to side and hangs down Read More…

Botox as an Injection Therapy for Excessive Clenching

Teeth clenching, otherwise known as bruxism, is a common phenomenon amongst many people. To some degree, almost everybody clenches his or her teeth. The issue lies in the intensity of the teeth clenching is. A person with severe bruxism will often clench their teeth with not only excessive force but with great repetition, often occurring Read More…

Case Study: The Hairline Browlift in Women

Background: Aging of the upper face primarily involves that which appears in the forehead. Falling of the eyebrows onto or off of the brow bone and the appearance of horizontal and vertical wrinkles are the classic, and quite frankly, only aging signs that can appear. The amount, if any, of brow sagging is the Read More…

Breast Augmentation with Injectable Fat – Risk of Infection

Injectable fat grafting continues to expand in number of uses and in acceptance as a reliable method of adding volume. Once reserved for just small volume additions to the face, it has become more recently popular in breast surgery. Starting initially with its use in breast reconstruction, for lumpectomy defects and as touch-ups after Read More…

Innovations in Injectable Fillers – What’s New and What’s Coming

While the nation’s economy has deflated over the past few years and continues to stagger without any obvious improvement, certain types of cosmetic treatments has not. To no surprise, cosmetic surgery may be down but less costly in-office procedures have increased as a result. (or maybe as a substitute for some) The array of Read More…

The Three-Dimensional Assessment of the Chin in Rhinoplasty

An important part of any rhinoplasty evaluation is that of the chin. Patients who pursue rhinoplasty to make their nose smaller should not be surprised that they may have a comparatively smaller chin by facial proportion assessment. This is because a ‘weak’ chin can make a nose appear more prominent. In patients that come Read More…