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OR Snapshots – Facial Fat Injection Concentration by Gravity Separation (Decanting)

Fat transfer is tremendously popular as a material option for facial voluminization. Almost any patient has adequate donor material and as an autologous graft there are no real medical downsides to using it. The face is a well vascularized recipient site so, in theory, injected fat should survive well. But as we all know such Read More…

OR Snapshots – Skin Flap Closure over the Ear in Facelift Surgery

The facelift operation is one of the most recognizable anti-aging facial surgeries. Since its inception over one hundred years ago, when it got its original name of rhytidectomy or the excision of facial wrinkles, it has undergone many technique advancements and variations. Many of these have been done on what lies under the skin with Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Postauricular Muscles and Temporal Reduction Surgery

Temporal reduction is an innovative surgery to reduce the width of the side of the head. While most think that the side of the head is composed of bone based on its firm feel, a significant part of its thickness is actually muscle. By removing the full-thickness of the posterior portion of the temporal muscle Read More…

OR Snapshots – ePTFE Orbital Rim Implant for Undereye Hollowing

The treatment of undereye hollows is most commonly done by injection techniques. Using synthetic fillers and autologous fat, adding volume to the deficient infraorbital rim by injection offer an immediate voluminizing effect in a non-surgical manner. When effective these injections are very treatments even if their volume effects are not maintained long-term. But the infraorbital Read More…

OR Snapshots – Management of the Bony Stepoff in the Sliding Genioplasty

The sliding genioplasty is a well known chin reshaping procedure that is most commonly associated with a horizontal advancement augmentation. In so doing it is recognized that there will be a resultant ‘step off’ that did not previously exist. As the lower downfractured bone segment is brought forward underneath the fixed superior bone segment, a Read More…

OR Snapshots – Scrotal Reduction and Lift Using the Midline Raphe Approach

The scrotum is a dual-chambered containment tissue sac that contains the testicles and its neurovascular pedicles. It is composed of numerous tissue layers of which the most obvious is the overlying skin. This skin is unique in its appearance in which it has an irregular textured surface. Whilst often appears as thin skin, it is Read More…

OR Snapshots – The Soft Tissue ePTFE Jaw Angle Implant for Masseteric Muscle Dehiscence

The masseter is the largest muscle on the face that has its bony origin and insertion there. It is a muscle that needs to be elevated by subperiosteal dissection for any form of jaw angle surgery including implants. While lifting the muscle up is a seemingly innocuous maneuver there is always the risk of it Read More…

OR Snapshots – Temporal Muscle Reduction in the Treatment of Migraines

Migraines headaches have various causes of which the exact origin for many patients is not precisely clear. This explains the lack of successful resolution for a large large number of people affected by this type of head pain. But there is one small group of migraine patients that do enjoy the benefits of improvement through Read More…

OR Snapshots – Combining Custom Buttock and Hip Implants

As the popularity of buttock augmentation has soared over the past decade, the need for hip augmentation has also arisen. No form of buttock augmentation, whether it is by implants or fat injections, can successfully provide substantial hip augmentation. Buttock implants certainly can not regardless of whether they are even placed in the subfascial tissue Read More…

OR Snapshots – Bicep Implants and the Axillary Fold Skin Incision

While the best and most natural method of building up the upper arm is with exercise, this can be bypassed by surgical means. Fat injection grafting is one such approach but this often does not survive the transplantation process. And even if it does it does not create an enhanced muscular appearance but just generalized Read More…