Category: plastic surgery case study | rib removal

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Waistline Narrowing by Rib Removal Surgery

Background: A more narrow waistline is a desire of just about anyone that does not have one. While both men and women seek a more narrow waistline, a woman’s perception of a more narrow waistline is different than that of a man’s. A man sees his waistline as at the belt or pant line. A Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Extended Custom Chin Implant in Facial Deformities

Background: Soft tissue contractures of the face cause a variety of deformities. Even with normal underlying bone structures, loss of overlying soft tissue volume and shape can make the face appear deficient and distorted. This is most classically illustrated by burn patients who suffer the greatest amounts of soft tissue loss and deformity when suffering Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Hump Reduction Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgery procedures performed. It is also the dominant facial reshaping procedure that has been performed for over a century. Historically and up to the present day removal of a hump or a lowering of the bridge of the nose is one of the most common Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Total Forehead Reduction with Hairline Advancement and Bone Contouring

Background: The shape of the forehead is affected by various hard and soft tissue components. The forehead is framed by the hairline superiorly, the brows inferiorly and the bony temporal lines to the sides. The projection of the forehead is controlled by the thickness of the frontal bone and its degree of convexity and smothness. Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Ten Year Old Silicone Breast Implants

Background: While the effects of breast implants can last a lifetime, the implants themselves may need to be replaced due to mechanical failure. This is a well known reality of breast implants and the younger of age one has them placed the near 100% probability they will need to be replaced over one’s lifetime. But Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Asian V Line Surgery

Background: Reshaping of the entire jawline to a more slim or narrowed shape has become known as V line surgery. It is most commonly done in Asians to change a wide and more square jaw to a more narrow and triangular one. It is a bony reshaping surgery which focuses on the chin anteriorly and Read More…

Case Study – Minimal Incision Bone Cement Occipital Skull Augmentation

Background: Skull deformities of the back of the head are very common. It is probably the one skull area that has the greatest incidence of shape distortions. This likely occurs because it is the most exposed skull area to deformational force both in utero and after birth due to fetal and neonatal positioning. Thus flat Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Abdominal Etching Liposuction

Background: A well shaped and toned abdomen is a goal of both men and women of all ages alike. While some have it naturally, particularly at a young age, most have to work to maintain or create it through some regular diet and exercise. A trim waistline and a flat abdomen is a reasonable and Read More…

Case Study – Asian Nasal Implant Rhinoplasty

Plastic SurgeryBackground: The need for augmentation of the nose can be due to congenital, traumatic or iatrogenic saddle nose deformities or for elective ethnic rhinoplasty surgery. Ethnic rhinoplasty indications are usually for the Asian or African-American patient in my practice and are dorsal line augmentations that usually involve the tip as well. The debate Read More…

Case Study – Extreme Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast implants are available in a wide variety of sizes based on volume. (ccs) Implant size ranges from 150cc to 800cc for most manufacturers. The vast majority of women achieve their breast augmentation goals in the median of these numbers in the 300cc to 500cc range. Large breast implants would be judged by Read More…