Category: chin augmentation | facelift | plastic surgery case study

Case Study: Facelift with Chin Augmentation

Background: As the face ages the tissues above the jawline fall and descend over it. This ‘wax off the candle effect’ combined with a sagging neck create the need for a facelift procedure which reverses many of these facial aging effects. Contrary to the perception of many, a facelift only treats the lower third of Read More…

Case Study: One-Sided Brow Bone Reduction

Background: Prominent brow bones are the direct result of the development of the underlying frontal sinus. While all of the frontal forehead bone above the brows is very solid and thick skull bone, the brows are made up of air with only thin bone in front and back of its thickness. The anterior or frontal Read More…

Case Study: Sliding Genioplasty for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Background: Sleep apnea is a well known nocturnal disorder in which one’s breathing is either very shallow or actually pauses during sleep. It is the length of these breathing pauses that are significant as they result in a drop of one’s oxygen levels due to decreased air intake. This creates a variety of medical problems Read More…

Case Study: Full Anchor Pattern Breast Lifts

Background: A change in a woman’s breasts is an assured phenomenon over her lifetime. Through pregnancies, weight gain/loss and gravity, breasts usually drop or sag with age. The amount of sag is often exaggerated by the concomitant loss of breast volume as well. While many women want larger breasts, just as many want or need Read More…

Case Study: Lip Advancement for Lip Asymmetry

Background: The size and shape of the lips is controlled by many factors. But one of the most important is the pink part of the lip known as the vermilion. The size of the lips is largely controlled by the vermilion height of the vermilion. (lip line out to the skin edge or vermilion-cutaneous junction) Read More…

Case Study: Female Jawline Implant Augmentation

Background: An underdeveloped jaw or mandible has been historically treated by chin and jaw angle implants. A chin implant enhances the front part of the jaw while jaw angle implants augment the posterior part of the jaw. While these types of facial implants are tremendously effective at augmenting the two obvious prominences of the jaw, Read More…

Case Study: Lateral Corticotomy Jaw Angle Reduction

Background: The frontal view of the face allows one to see its width from the forehead down to the jawline. This width and its proportion to the length of the face helps create an overall facial shape. It is generally acknowledged that there are seven basic facial shapes which for women an oval shape is Read More…

Case Study: Surgical Rejuvenation of the Aging Mouth

Background: Aging affects all parts of the face and the mouth area is no exception. The changes of the lips and the perioral tissues are classic and include thinning of the lips, downturning of the corners of the mouth and the development of vertical lip lines. These central facial aging changes are unaffected by more Read More…

Case Study: Tummy Tuck for the Double Roll Abdominal Deformity

Background: Tummy tucks are done for a wide variety of abdominal wall deformities. Whether it is a small lower pooch from pregnancies or a large overhanging pannus from a lifetime of weight gain (and some weight loss), tummy tucks are done in an almost customized fashion for each patient. The location and extent of Read More…

Case Study: Tissue Expansion in Scalp Reconstruction

Background: The scalp is exposed to a wide variety of traumatic and disease processes which can result in small to large lost segments. While smaller scalp defects can be closed by subgaleal mobilization and stretching to a moderately tight closure, defects beyond a few cms can not be so simply closed with hair-bearing scalp. Scalp Read More…