Category: custom facial implants | jawline reshaping | OR snapshots

OR Snapshots – Split Custom Jawline Implant Insertion Method

Augmentation of the jawline can be done by a variety of implanted materials. While recent trends in plastic surgery have focused on using injectable fillers and fat for many forms of facial augmentation, this is not a particularly successful treatment strategy for the jawline. Most jawline shape changes, particularly in men, call; for a more Read More…

OR Snapshots – Rhinoplasty with Septal Cartilage Graft

One of the fundamentals principles in rhinoplasty is the use of cartilage grafts. Since much of the nose is composed cartilage, its reconstruction or aesthetic augmentation is often done using cartilage grafts. There are three harvest sources of cartilage in rhinoplasty including the nose itself (septum), the ear and the ribs. The septum is Read More…

OR Snapshots – Large Custom Skull Implant and The Need for Adequate Scalp Coverage

Skull augmentation is an essential procedure in aesthetic skull reshaping surgery. While onlay cranioplasty (aka skull augmentation) can be done by using a variety of synthetic materials, larger expansions of the skull’s outer surface are most reliably done using 3D custom implant designs. Using the patient’s 3D CT scan, a custom skull implant can Read More…

OR Snapshots – Large Lipoma Excision of the Shoulder

Lipomas are the most benign soft tissue tumor. They are easy to identify by examination as they are circular, slightly mobile and are located right under the skin. Almost no matter what size they grow to they are generally painless. The vast majority of lipomas are fairly small and 1 cm or less in size. Read More…

OR Snapshots – Direct Necklift for Older Turkey Neck Removals

Significant aging of the neck is most commonly treated by a neck lift, also known as a lower facelift. While earlier signs of neck sagging/fullness may be treated by liposuction and other more limited procedures, true neck wattles can only be treated by more traditional and aggressive approaches. A lower facelift/necklift repositions the hanging neck Read More…

OR Snapshots – Premaxillary Osteotomy for Anterior Upper Jaw Protrusion

Orthognathic surgery is a well known type of bone procedures that move the upper and lower jaws to improve one’s bite (occlusion) as well as improve jaw relationships to the face. It is done on the upper and lower jaws with the mainstay procedures of a LeFort I osteotomy (upper jaw) and sagittal split ramus Read More…

OR Snapshots – Vertical Lengthening Genioplasty with Interpositional Graft

Chin augmentation is traditionally thought as a choice between a chin implant and a sliding genioplasty. While seen as the two procedure choices for chin reshaping they are not really interchangeable. Besides the difference between synthetically augmenting the bone vs actually cutting and moving the bone, they can achieve different dimensional chin changes. The one Read More…