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OR Snapshots – The Safe Limit of Fat Removal in Liposuction

Liposuction is the most commonly performed cosmetic body contouring procedure, both by number of patients and body surface area. It has undergone a lot of technical improvements over the past third-five years from patient indications to the technical equipment needed to perform it. While understandably viewed as an aesthetic procedure, its traumatic impact on the Read More…

The Safety and Effectiveness of Perioral Mound Liposuction

While liposuction is widely used over many body areas, its applications to the face are much more limited. Between the far fewer isolated fat pockets and the location of motor nerve branches, facial liposuction is a fairly limited technique for fat reduction outside of the neck. One facial area that can have liposuction done is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Power-Assisted Liposuction for Buffalo Hump Reduction

Background: The buffalo hump deformity is a well known collection of fat in the back of the neck. It is a seemingly unusual place to develop a fatty collection given that it is a body area that is associated with becoming ‘fat’. But there is a congenital fat pad in the upper back known as Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Knobby Knee Liposuction

Background: Excess fat collections can occur all over the body. Some may occur from excess calories (e.g., abdomen) while others occur as part of one’s development. (e.g., arms) But regardless of its source, most fatty areas can be successfully treated by liposuction for contour improvement. Liposuction of the lower extremities is the second most common Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Facial Slimming Surgery with Chin Augmentation and Facial Fat Removal

Background: The round face is often characterized by soft tissues excesses and bony deficiencies. It takes a combination of both tissue issues to create a round or convex facial shape. Very often the lower jaw/chin is short or deficient and the lack of a bony projection is the linchpin to this type of facial shape. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Severe Double Chin Correction with Sliding Genioplasty, Buccal Lipectomies and Neck Liposuction

Background: The lower face is perceived by the shape and projection of the chin and the cervicomental angle. A fairly well defined neck angle and a discernible chin are positive facial features regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. This speaks to the popularity of such plastic surgery procedures like chin augmentation and neck liposuction which Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Buffalo Hump Reduction with Power-Assisted Liposuction

Background: The buffalo hump is a descriptive term that universally applies to a discrete collection of fat on the back of the neck. Looking at the American bison it is easy to see why it has its name with the massive shoulders of the animal being amongst its most distinct features. But unlike the bison, Read More…

Improving Penile Show with Pubic Liposuction

While undesirable fat collections can occur anywhere in the body, even small amounts in the wrong place can have undesired effects on adjacent body structures. Such is the case with pubic mound lipodystrophies. The buried penis, also known as the hidden or concealed penis, is when some or all of the length of the penis Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Abdominal and Waistline Power-Assisted Liposuction

Background: Fat removal by liposuction remains the most common body contouring surgery, particularly if one looks at body surface areas treated. Having been around for over 35 years liposuction has undergone many technologic advancements. The vast majority of these improvements have been in the equipment needed to perform it from cannula design to the devices Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Cankle Liposuction

Background: Undesirable fat collections around the body, medically known as lipodystrophy, are usually caused by excess calories and results from their storage. But in some people and in certain locations of the body, fatty collections are more congenital in origin and are aggravated by weight gain. Even at a patient’s ideal weight these fat collections Read More…