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OR Snapshots – Custom Chest Wall Implant for Pectus Excavatum Correction in Adult Male

Pectus excavatum is one of the most recognized of all congenital chest wall deformities. It involves an abnormality of the union and shape of the osteocartilaginous sternum and ribs. It has diverse manifestations that are never the same in any two patients. Due to the emergence of both early and late surgical interventions for its Read More…

OR Snapshots – Transpalpebral Brow Bone Reduction in Facial Asymmetry

The typical perception of brow bone reduction is a horizontal decrease in the projection of the supaorbital rims. Such surgery is done for either the male who has large ‘Neanderthal-like’ brow bones or in facial feminization surgery for either transgender or non-transgender patients. While such facial bony reductions can be done by burring alone, more Read More…

OR Snapshots – Custom Buttock Implants for Larger Subfascial Augmentations

While the most common form of buttock augmentation today is fat grafting (Brazilian Butt Lift surgery or BBL), buttock implants still have a role to play. They are the only other method of surgical buttock augmentation for those patients who do not have enough fat to harvest for a BBL or have failed previous BBL Read More…

OR Snapshots – ePTFE Premaxillary-Paranasal Implant Design

Increasing the projection of the central midface at the base of the nose and upper lip involves augmenting the bony perimeter of the pyriform aperture. This anterior bony opening in the maxilla leads into the nose. At its more narrow end superiorly are the nasal bones. At its larger lower end the bone curves down Read More…

OR Snapshots – Hourglass Figure Surgery Combining Buttock Implants with Rib Removal

Altering the shape of a woman’s body has been a part of plastic surgery for over fifty years. This has traditionally meant such procedures as breast augmentation, liposuction and tummy tucks. In the most contemporary forms of female body contouring the role of the buttocks and hips, once deemed undesirable, have become popular. This has Read More…

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…

OR Snapshots – Testicle Implant Replacement with Ultrasoft Silicone Testicle Implant

Testicle implants have been used for decades in various forms. It is the only known surgical method to replace the lost volume and shape occupied by a natural testicle. Originally they were composed of solid silicone but that material was removed from commercial availability as a result of the silicone breast implant issues in the Read More…

OR Snapshots – Custom Sterno-Pectoral Implant in Adult Pectus Excavatum

The chest is exposed to a variety of deformities of its bony and cartilaginous structures. The curve of the ribs around the chest and their attachment to the sternum create an architecture that can become disturbed. One of the most recognized of these deformities is pectus excavatum. This chest wall deformity is most typified with Read More…

OR Snapshots – Submental Approach to Chin Reduction

The chin is the projecting feature of the lower face and consists of combined bone and soft tissue. While the chin may be more commonly recognized for treatment of deficiencies in its size and projection, it is also prone to the opposite issues of excess and sagging. Chin bony overgrowths (hyperplasia), chin pad sagging (ptosis) Read More…

OR Snapshots – Head Widening Temporal Implants

The width of the head is determined by how wide it is above the ears. This is known as the temporal region and consists of a very uniquely shaped temporal bone and varying thicknesses of the temporals muscle over it. By the eye the temporal bone is very concave and the temporalis muscle is correspondingly Read More…