Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Mastoid Skull Implants after Large Side of The Head Augmentation

Background: The mastoid process is an extension of the temporal bone located behind the ear. It has a smooth conical shape onto which numerous muscles attach. (e.g., sternocleidomastoid) It is a projection because of the large air cells within it and is easily visible particularly in the shaved head male. Because of its location the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant Correction for a Right Coronal Dip Skull Deformity

Background: While the skull is generally a collection of smooth convex surfaces, it is prone to a wide variety of contour deformities. Many of these contour deformities are located in and around the suture lines which serve as the interface between two growing skull bone plates. As there are six primary sutures on the external Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implant Replacements for Folded Malpositioned Hip Implants

Background: Hip augmentation has become a more commonly requested procedure today undoubtably due to the rise on BBL buttock augmentation procedures. Buttock augmentation often makes the hip areas look deficient by proximity and comparison. But unlike buttock augmentation, either by fat injections or implants, achieving satisfactory hip augmentation is not so easy. While the ideal Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Horizontal Chin Reduction

Background: The chin is a distinctive human facial feature that is not found on other mammal. Its exact function has yet to be precisely defined. Its shape has a raised vertical ridge along the symphyseal midline along with paired bulbous formations on each side of its lower edge known as mental or lateral tubercles. These Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Mid-Shaft Bone Resection in Clavicle Reduction Shoulder Narrowing Osteotomies

Background: The clavicle is composed of three differently shaped bone segments. There is an inner mid shaft segment which is straight and there is inner and outer bone segments that have reverse curved shapes. The lengths of each bone segment are roughly equal. While their bone lengths are roughly equal their thicknesses are not.The inner Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Occipital Scalp Roll Excision with Central Bony Ridge Reduction

Background: At the interface of the bottom end of the skull on the back of the head (inferior edge of occipital bone) is the upper neck. This is where the thick neck muscles and fascia attach to the bone. Because of this location the skull bone and neck soft tissues are thickest at this interface. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Soft Tissue Jaw Angle Implants for Masseteric Muscle Dehiscence Correction

Background: Surgery of the bony jaw angles is unique from other parts of the lower jaw due to the large masseter muscle that lies over it. The posterior-inferior border of the jaw angles serve as the focused insertion point of the masseter muscle from its broad origin along the zygomatic body and arch. This insertion Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Cis-Female Shoulder Narrowing Surgery with Asymmetry Correction

Background: Shoulder narrowing surgery is commonly performed in transfemale and thus is often perceived as an exclusive transgender surgery. But in reality it is an aesthetic structural body contouring surgery that can be performed on anyone regardless of their gender identity. There may be slightly different motivations for undergoing the surgery, whether it is a Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Shoulder Narrowing Clavicle Reductions vs Clavicle Fractures

Background: Removing a segment of the clavicle allows an obvious inward movement of the shoulders with the loss of its bone length. Because it is the collarbone such reduction osteotomies are often thought of as fractures…a well known traumatic bone injury of the clavicle. But understanding how a clavicle osteotomy is different than a fracture Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Male Brow Bone Reduction by Bone Flap Setback

Background: The appearance/size of the brow bones is a forehead feature that is usually very gender specific. Prominent brow bones is a verydistinct male trait and serves as the basis for why forehead reshaping is one of the most common facial feminization surgery procedures. Often lost in this surgery is that brow bone reductions are Read More…