Category: buccal lipectomy | liposuction

Facial Feminization Surgery – Middle Third Reshaping – III. Buccal Lipectomies and Perioral Liposuction

While not a classic feminizing procedure, facial defatting or slimming can be a useful facial reshaping technique for those patients who have naturally rounder faces or chubby cheeks. The three facial areas that can be successfully reduced by different techniques are the two primary cheek areas, the buccal fat pads and the perioral mounds, as Read More…

Postoperative Instructions – Buccal Lipectomy and Perioral Liposuction Surgery

The ability to reduce facial fat and deround or sculpt a face by fat removal is limited to a few procedures. The most common procedures to do so on the face are buccal lipectomies and perioral liposuction. While there are companion procedures and are often done together they affect different parts of the cheeks. A Read More…

The Role of Suprapubic Liposuction in Buried Penis Surgery in Children

Buried penis is a well known congenital anomaly in which the penis is normal in size but outwardly appears small. It goes by numerous other names such as concealed penis or inconspicuous penis. But regardless of the name in many patients the full size of the penis is hidden beneath the prepubic skin and fat. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Chin Implant and Neck Liposuction For Improved Lower Facial Profile

Background: The facial profile consists of several protruding structures that are easily seen and analyzed. Facial profile prominences include the brow bones, nose, lips, chin and neck. (cervicomental angle) Several of these structure have unique relationships to each other and are commonly employed in aesthetic surgery as ‘tandem procedures’. The two most commonly paired facial Read More…

Clinical Experience with Full and Modified Abdominal Etching Liposuction

The general approach used for liposuction is much like reducing a mountain to a less convex or flatter shape. The goal is to remove fat in a manner that results in a smooth outer surface across the area being treated with a shape consistent to the body area being treated. For most body areas this Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Abdominal and Flank Power-Assisted Liposuction

Background: Non-excisional surgical fat removal, aka liposuction, has been the most popular body contouring procedure for the past four decades. Even with the onset in the last decade of non-surgical fat removal technologies (e.g., Cool Sculping, Vanquish) the number of patients undergoing liposuction surgery has not decreased. This is a testament to the fact that Read More…

Technical Strategies – Microcannula Liposuction Reduction of the Mouth Parentheses Deformity.

Unlike the body the face has limited opportunities for fat removal. It is not that there is not fat in the face, as many fuller faces can attest, but that the ability to remove it is restricted by the numerous motor nerves that course through the face. Also unlike the body the largest reservoir of Read More…

The Buccal Lipectomy and Perioral Liposuction Combined Midface Slimming Approach

Changing the shape of the face is largely done by altering the bony framework that supports it. Whether it be by augmentation or reduction methods, facial reshaping surgery modifies the structural support of the face onto which the soft tissues drape over and around. There are soft tissue facial reshaping procedures as well which, beyond Read More…

Technical Strategies – Linear Liposuction to Enhance the Effect of Custom Jawline Implants

A variety of implants are available to augment the jawline and lower third of the face. Standard chin and jaw angle implants have been available for decades and one piece custom jawline implants have become more recently used. The most powerful of the two is the custom jawline implant as it expands the entire inferolateral Read More…

The Technique and Outcomes from Abdominal Etching Surgery for the Creation of the Six Pack Abdomen

The perception of an in shape and well toned body is that of muscular definition of which the abdomen is always a focus. Having a well cut abdominal wall, known as six-pack abs, is a desirous physical trait. While diet and exercise is the traditional method for obtaining that look, for some it is not Read More…