Category: plastic surgery case study | skull reshaping

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Minimal Incision Spot Cranioplasty Technique for Occipital Skull Indentation Correction

Background: The smooth shape of the skull can be disrupted by a variety of surface contour irregularities. Protrusions, indentations and ridges can occur anywhere along its bony surfaces and are most evident when the view of the scalp is not impeded by hair. With today’s male hairstyles of shaved heads being an accepted and attractive Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Braline Backlift for Removal of Back Rolls

Background: The back is an area that is prone to develop thickness due to fat accumulation and skin rolls. This seems to be more common in women, in certain body types and with aging and weight gain. These back rolls typically develop as more obliquely oriented sagging tissues excesses. The standard treatment for back ‘lipodystrophy’ Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Rib Removal Results in a Tall Thin Athletic Female

Background: Rib removal has proven to be a successful waistline reshaping procedure in the properly selected patient. Good patients for the procedure are thinner patients that do not have a lot of subcutaneous body fat. Patients that have had prior liposuction and have expended all other surgical efforts for their waistline would also usually qualify. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Correction of Male Pectoral Implant Asymmetry

Background: Pectoral implants in men are in some ways similar to breast implants in women. Their similarities are that both implant types are placed in the submuscular position and can be surgically inserted through an axillary incision. But this is where their similarities end and they become divergent. Pectoral implants are made of soft solid Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Hip Implants Following Intramuscular Buttock Implants

Background: Successful buttock augmentation can be done with either fat injections or implants. But in very thin patients fat injections are not a buttock augmentation option ad implants have to be used. In such thin patients the best location for buttock implants is in the intramuscular location. This provides the best camouflage of their outline Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Brow Bone Implant Placement Using an Endoscopic-Assisted Triangular Incisional Method

Background: One of the key male distinguishing features of the upper third of the face are the brow bones. It is a very gender specific facial feature that truly separates a male vs a female facial appearance. One other aesthetic aspect of having some brow bone protrusion is that it also helps provide some coverage Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Custom Skull Heightening Implant

Background: Physically changing one’s height in adults can be accomplished by a variety of non-surgical and surgical methods. The historic non-surgical method was the placement of lifts in one’s shoes to the most contemporary method of lower limb lengthening. Shoe lifts are the simplest method and height increases of up to 1’’ are usually obtained. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Hairline Incisional Approach for Forehead Lipoma Removal

Background: Lipomas are one of the most common benign tumors, purportedly presenting as many as several million cases per year in the U.S.. While their exact cause is not precisely known, it is known to be an overgrowth of otherwise normal fat cells. They can appear at any time in life and are slow growing. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Calf Implant Augmentation of the Upper Inner Leg Concavity

Background: The contour of the inner leg below the knee is heavily influenced by the size and shape of the medical gastrocnemius muscle. This muscle takes it origin from the medial head of the femoral condyle and extends down the inner aspect of the lower leg to join with the soleus tendon/muscle on its way Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant for Correction of Peaked Head Shape with Geometric Split Insertion Technique

Background: The skull is prone to a wide variety of shape malformations by virtue of its multiple suture connections during development. Premature fusion of these sutures cause well known forms of head deformity known as craniosynostoses. While these classic forms of craniosynostosis are the result of near or complete premature fusion of these suture lines Read More…