Category: Clinic Snapshots | rib removal

Clinic Snapshots – Rib Removal Results In Female Bodybuilder With Normal Lat Muscle Function

Rib removal surgery for aesthetic waistline narrowing can be an effective procedure in the properly selected patient. It is typically performed in my extensive experience with the procedure in women who are either seeking a more pronounced shaped waistline that what they currently have or in the transgender MTF patient who is trying create some Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Male Occipital Knob Reduction Result

The occipital knob, sometimes called occipital bun, is a protrusion of bone on the back of the head at the bottom of the occipital bone. It is actually a normal bony protrusion, known as the inion, but in some men becomes excessively large. Rather than staying hidden under the nuchal ridges its enlargement appears as Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Scalp Scar from Male Skull Reshaping Procedure

Custom skull implants are done for a very wide array of skull shape issues. They can be very large, almost covering the entire skull, to being quite small and discrete in surface area coverage. But regardless of their size, they all require a scalp incision to place them. The scalp incision may, on the surface, Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Healed Intraoral Wound Using Pedicle Buccal Fat Flap Over Jaw Angle Implant

The most common approach for jaw angle implant placement is intraoral. This not only avoids an external approach but provides the widest exposure of the mandibular ramus. This incision is made through a posterior vestibular mucosal incision. There are various thoughts on where it should be placed directly into the depth of the vestibule or Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Male Tummy Tuck Options

A tummy tuck is a well known body contouring procedure that is most commonly associated with female plastic surgery. Most commonly done as a result of pregnancy and/or weight loss, it is of great benefit to women as the loose abdominal skin that has been created is not going to go away with exercise or Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Temporal Artery Ligation Outcomes

While the superficial temporal artery, a distal branch of the external carotid artery, is essential for providing blood flow to the temples and scalp. Based on its path northward into the scalp, it appears to be the terminal end of the external carotid artery. It splits in a well known Y-configuration above the ear of Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Large Custom Skull Implant for Flat Back of the Head Augmentation

Of all aesthetic skull reshaping surgeries in adults, correction of the flat back of the head is the most common. It is a skull shape deformation that is shared equally by women and men as well as crosses all ethnicities. It can be a complete flattening across the back of the heador it can Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – Cupid’s Bow Reduction Result

The dominant feature of either upper or lower lip is that of the cupid’s bow. It is really the only non-linear feature of the lips. The resemblance of the double curve of the upper lip to a bow laying on its side is obvious. While peaks of the bow could resemble any bow, it presumably Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – The Precision of the Upper Blepharoplasty

Aging of the eyes is often the first sign of facial aging. Its develops initially because the thin skin of the eyelids and their frequent movement creates excessive excessive and loss skin. The upper eyelid often suffers the worst because it actually is more active than the lower eyelid with a greater excursion of movement. Read More…

Clinic Snapshots – The Appearance of the Retrotragal Facelift Incision

The facelift is one of the most common of all facial rejuvenation procedures. While there area a myriad of methods to perform it with various technical maneuvers that can seem bewildering to the patient, the most basic part of it remains the incision around the ears. While perhaps not the most technically challenging part of Read More…