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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…

Different Methods to Narrow the Cheek Bones

The need to reduce or narrow wide cheeks is a far less frequent request than making them bigger. Most commonly, cheek reduction surgery is requested by Asian cultures, notably Eastern Asians. East Asian cultures value a small face, and wide cheekbones appear to make the face bigger. In rare cases, a patient may have developed Read More…

Male Chest Enhancement with Pectoral Implants

Pectoral implants, the male version of a female breast implant, is a popular option to increase the appearance of chest muscles. Some men desire to improve a congenital chest wall deformity, known as pectus excavatum, while other men have been simply unable to increase the size of the chest muscles with exercise. mass Pectoral implants add size Read More…