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Facial Reshaping by Bony Augmentation and Fat Reduction

Making a face more square or angular can be done through bone augmentation, fat reduction, or both. I have found that there are two types of patients who come because they want a more defined facial look. First is the male patient (usually younger)who does not necessarily have a full or fat face but Read More…

Facelifts and Chin Implants – A Natural Combination

Facelifts are great procedures that can dramatically change the sagging jowl and neck area. Contrary to the perception of many, a facelift does little for most of the face. A facelift is really a neck procedure and is a facial procedure if you consider the neck and jawline the lower third of the face. Read More…

Combining Medical Insurance and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

There are numerous plastic surgery procedures that are considered medically necessary, such as breast reduction, breast reconstruction and skin cancer treatments to name just a few. But cosmetic procedures such as tummy tucks, eyelid tucks, or scar revisions are not considered medically necessary even though many patients feel that the insurance company should provide coverage. the Read More…

Improving the Shape of the Neck with Combination Plastic Surgery

A sharply defined and tight neck is associated with a youthful and healthy appearance. Loss of a good neck angle certainly does occur with age as the neck skin loosens and jowling along the jawline develops. However, poor neck shapes and an obtuse neck angle occurs in the young as well but for different Read More…

Online Facial Computer Imaging (LiftMagic) for Plastic Surgery

The value of computer imaging in facial plastic surgery is significant. For procedures of the nose, chin, and neck, profile imaging is standard and fairly accurate. For frontal views around the forehead, eyes, nose and mouth, computer imaging is not as accurate but is, nonetheless, useful. While compter imaging was once only available in a Read More…

Combining Rhinoplasty and Chin Augmentation for A Substantial Facial Profile Change

While one could argue that no individual really sees themselves in a true profile view, that is how the rest of the world does however. (actually a quarter profile view to be accurate) In a profile view, the most important facial prominences are the nose and the chin and to some degree the neck Read More…

Multiple Procedure Facial Plastic Surgery

While patients usually come in for a specific facial concern, it is hard to see the face as a single part. Aesthetic facial surgery is all about creating facial balance and proportion. Sometimes, the correction of a single facial feature does put it into good balance…but other times it requires adjustment of multiple features Read More…

Aesthetic Orthopedic Surgery of the Chin

Moving the chin bone is the simplest of all the cosmetic facial bone procedures. Because the chin is easy to get to through the mouth and there is little in the way to get there, cutting and moving the chin bone (the tip of the front of the lower jaw) is relatively easy do Read More…

Surgical vs. Non-Surgical Jaw Angle Reduction

Jaw reduction strives to narrow the lower-third of the face, particularly that of the lower jaw and its muscle attachments. There are several techniques for jaw reduction, some surgical and others non-surgical. Jaw reduction is most common in Asians where there is a societal preference for a slender jaw profile. This is in contrast to Read More…

Osteotomies for Cheek Widening

People with a narrow-appearing face have often a deficiency in the width of where the upper jaw and cheek meet, known as the cheek or malar complex. The most common and simple method to improve the amount of cheek that one has is to place a cheek implant. There are some patients who do Read More…