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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Correction of Inverted Nipples by Breast Augmentation

Background: Mant types of aesthetic breast ‘deformities’ present in the breast augmentation patient. Issues such as breast asymmetry, sagging, wide sternal spacing, lateralization of the breast round and horizontal nipple asymmetries are the most common. Each present their own challenges and potential aesthetic distractions from an ideal breast augmentation result. One potential aesthetic nipple concern Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Submental Chin Reduction for the Horizontally Protrusive Chin

Background: While chin augmentation by any method dominates aesthetic chin surgery, there remans a need for chin reduction even if its overall demand is less. While the need for chin reduction surgery is less, this does not mean it is easy or more successful than chin augmentation surgery. In fact the exact opposite is true…chin Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Maximal Reduction in the Male Tracheal Shave

Background: The youthful neck in a male has few surface landmarks to make it distinguishable. Men will almost always have some laryngeal prominence which is gender specific as most females do not. This laryngeal prominence is known as the Adam’s apple and it occurs in men because the hormonal influences make the angle of the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Maximal Facial Masculinization using Custom Jawline and Cheek Implants

Background: What defines a masculine face is a well defined skeletal structure. This skeletal structure involves the facial bones that have a natural linear or convex shape (cheeks and jawline) as opposed to those that have a natural concavity. (maxilla and pyriform aperture) The more prominent that the cheeks and jawline are the more masculine Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Postauricular Sulcus Obliteration Otoplasty for Maximal Upper Ear Protrusion Correction

Background: The most commonly performed aesthetic ear procedure (not including the repair of earlobe tears) is a s setback otoplasty. Done for correction of the protruding ears, various cartilage manipulations are done on the back of the ear to bend the cartilage and move the ear inward so its protrusion from the side of the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Lower Buttock Lift for Type II Ptosis

Background: Ptosis or structural sagging is known to affect many body areas, most commonly that of the breasts for which a classification scheme has been devised for it to help with treatment strategies for its correction. But sagging also affects the buttocks and is fairly well recognized. It most commonly develops as a result of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Natural Breast Augmentation using Transaxillary Silicone Breast Implants

Background: The overwhelming priority question for most women who seek breast augmentation is what implant size should they choose. While the interpretation of breast size is highly subjective the end goal ultimately falls into descriptive categories, a natural or an augmented look. Women will generally fall into these two camps of breast augmentation results and Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Female Tummy Tuck and Liposuction for Abdominal Roll Removal

Background: The waistline is both an anatomic human feature but also a somewhat artificial one as well. Anatomically the level at or below the belly button crossing at the level of the iliac crests to the back separates the pubic, hip and buttock regions from the stomach and back. But the use of clothing and Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Two Piece Large Custom Skull Implant for Head Enlargement

Background: The size of one’s head or skull is largely genetically driven unless there are congenital brain or skull deformities involved. Head sizes vary greatly amongst all people and even amongst gender, race and geographic location. There is no known intellectual differences between the broad normal range of head sizes that occur. The interpretation of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Orbital Floor- Rim-Malar Implant in Vertical Orbital Dystopia Surgery

Background: The shape and symmetry of the eyes is critically judged by many people because they are paired and are always the first thing seen on the face when looking in a mirror. Such critical assessment of the face has now become magnified with the proliferation of selfies and the widespread use of self-photography that Read More…