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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant For The Correction Of The Flat Back of The Head In Male Plagiocephaly

Background: Plagiocephaly is the most well known congenital/developmental skull deformity outside that of the craniosynostoses. Because the skull shape deformations may be mild to moderate in severity and there are no functional neurologic sequelae associated with them, it is presumed by some patients and practitioners in particular that there is no reasonable treatment for the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Posterior Webbed Neck Correction With Trapezius Muscle Transposition Flaps

Background: The webbed neck is a unique congenital deformity that is easily identified by its appearance. The neck skin webs are associated with widening of the trapezius muscle as well. It can be debated as to whether the neck webs represent an excess of tissue or normal tissue that is abnormally displaced to the side. Read More…

Technical Strategies – Intraoperative Secondary Reduction of Custom Skull Implants

The use of custom skull implants brings to head reshaping what implants have done for every other face and body area. It has opened up new aesthetic possibilities that patients previously thought were never possible. Since there are no standard skull implants presently and given the unique characteristics of everyone’s skull shape, a custom implant Read More…

Technical Strategies – Intraoral Placement of Standard Female Cheek Implants

Cheek implants have been around for over fifty years but despite this long duration they are few techniques described as to how to place them. Most cheek implants are placed through an intraoral approach which is the most direct line of access to where they are typically placed. In watching surgeons do the procedure I Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Low Back Of The Head Augmentation With A Custom Skull Implant Design Onto The Neck Muscles

Background: Augmentation of a deficient of flat back of the head is one of the most common skull reshaping requests. Most likely this area of the skull experiences the greatest deformational forces between lying in the womb as a fetus and in sleeping positions in infancy and childhood. There are also certain ethnic groups that Read More…

The Use Of The Sliding Genioplasty In The Facial Rejuvenation Patient

The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin augmentation that is most commonly performed in younger male and female patients. Besides the greater invasiveness of the procedure what really separates it from a chin implant is its effects on the submental or anterior neck region. By pulling the chin bone forward the attached soft tissues Read More…

Avoiding Nerve Injuries in Subfascial Calf Implant Placement – Cadaveric Dissections

Calf implants offer assured and a permanent muscle enhancing effect for the lower legs. They are specifically used to enhance the size of the gastrocnemius muscles. They are most commonly placed in the subfascial pocket on top of the muscle through incisions on the back of the knee. While a relatively straightforward procedure for those Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Lateral Border Modified Pectoral Implants Combined With Pectoral Triangle Liposuction For Male Chest Enhancement

Background: Male chest enhancement usually refers to the size of the pectoralis major muscle which creates definition and shape to the chest. While fat reduction by liposuction around the outer border of the muscle may offer some modest improvement in the shape of the chest (liposculpture), pectoral muscle augmentation offers the greatest male chest shape Read More…

Technical Strategies – A Modified Approach To Mini V Line Chin Reshaping Surgery

Mini V line surgery is a chin narrowing concept that manipulates the bone to create a more narrow or v-shaped chin. Specifically it involves a combination of a horizontal osteotomy and a vertical midline ostectomy of the chin bone to narrow it. Vertical shortening/lengthening as well as horizontal advancement can also be done based on Read More…

Technical Strategies – Achieving The High CheekBone Look Using Standard Implants

While cheek implants have been around for over fifty years little attention has been paid to their gender differences. Men and women do not want the same type of cheek augmentation effect/look in my experience in many patients. While the facial differences between men and women have been acknowledged for centuries cheek implants exist as Read More…