Category: forehead reduction | hairline advancement | plastic surgery case study

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Composite Forehead Reduction (Frontal Hairline Advancement and Frontal Bossing Reduction) in a Thin Caucasian Female

Background: While there are many features they define an aesthetically pleasing forehead two of them are of particular relevance. First the length of the forehead, as defined by the vertical distance between the eyebrows and the frontal hairline, should be proportionate to the lower facial thirds. Secondly the slope of the forehead, the relationship between Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Shoulder Narrowing Clavicle Reduction Osteotomies in the Tall Female

Background: Shoulder reduction surgery is performed on a wide variety of patients, particularly when it comes to their height. I have performed this surgery on patients from 5’3”to 6’2” tall. Wile the surgery itself does not change regardless of the patient’s height the amount of clavicle bone that can be removed does. It makes sense Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Testicle Implants in the Penile Prosthesis Patient

Background: The surgical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) is the penile prosthesis which has evolved over the years. While once just a stiff rod placed into the shaft penile prostheses today are more dynamic. Connected to a reservoir and a pump they can create erections on demand based on saline fill into the prosthesis. The Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long Term Results of Custom Extended Head Widening Implants for Untreated Sagittal Craniosynbostosis

Background: Scaphocephaly is a general term that literally means a boat-shaped head. Dimensionally this means an elongated front to back head length that is invariably associated with a narrow head width as well. This can occur in non-syndromic patients but the expression of the altered head shape is more mild in presentation than in syndromic Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Nasal Tip Reshaping in the Female Nose

Background: The tip of the nose is the most common area that is changed in many rhinoplasty surgeries. It is the most anatomically complex part of the nose due to the confluence of the lower alar cartilages, septum and the nostril openings. As a result there are a large number of technical maneuvers to change Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Trapezius Muscle Implants in the Older Male

Background: There are eleven (11) different muscle areas that can be aesthetically enhanced by implants in the body. (minus the face) In the upper body this includes the pectoral (chest), bicep and tricep (upper arm), deltoid (shoulder), brachioradialis (forearm) and trapezius. (upper back muscles) Of all of these muscle enhancement sites the trapezius is the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Jawline Implant for the Flat Mandibular Plane Angle Male Face

Background: A well defined jawline, particularly for a male, is one of the most important facial features. There are many dimensional aspects to what constitutes a well defined jawline but in the end it is a more prominent chin and jaw angle appearance. What differentiates the enhanced jawline is the magnitude of these corner projections Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Crown Of the Skull Reduction

Background: There are a wide variety of aesthetic skull shape deformations that can be divided into either deficiencies or excesses. The excess category may be called protrusions and some are seen in profile where they violate the ‘Golden Arc’ of the skull. This arc is the shape and distance of the head from the nasion Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transcutaneous Placement of Custom Jawline Implant After Chin Wing Osteotomy and Bimax Surgeries

Background: There are limited options for autologous or bony jaw augmentation methods. The most well known and used is the sliding genioplasty but this is limited to the chin. Lesser known is the chin wing osteotomy, touted as a complete jaw augmentation method but it is limited by the bone cuts to the anterior 2/3s Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Transfemale Combined Shoulder and Waist Narrowing Body Contouring Surgeries

Background: There are numerous body contouring surgeries that transfemales may find of benefit. The most common ones performed are liposuction, BBL and breast, buttock and hip implant surgeries which are primarily soft tissue enhancements. These are also structural body modifications (aka hard tissue procedures) that are gaining popularity which include shoulder reduction by clavicle bone Read More…