Category: chin reduction | plastic surgery case study

Case Study: Vertical Chin Reduction by Submental Ostectomy

Background: The chin is the prominent and most protruding structure of the lower face. It is a three-dimensional facial part that can have excesses and deficiencies of either the amount of projection, width or in its height. Because of the soft tissue that wraps around the chin bone, excessive or big chins pose greater Read More…

Case Study: Breast Implant Size Exchange For Bigger Breasts

Background: The choice of implant size is often the most important issue that every women ponders before her breast augmentation procedure. While there is no exact science to making that selection, important considerations include breast and implant base diameters, the amount of breast mound skin and what final breast shape (round vs. tear drop) Read More…

Case Study: The Use of Rib Grafts in Revisional African-American Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty in the non-caucasian ethnic nose poses different challenges than many typical rhinoplasty procedures. The goal of making a more defined and less wide nose requires a major change in the cartilage construct of the nose. Increasing the height of the bridge and the tip requires a considerable push from beneath to lift often Read More…

Case Study: Tracheal Shave for Neck Feminization

Background: The neck is generally a flat surface in youth that may have a bump or prominence in the middle about halfway between the jawline and the upper sternum of the chest. This laryngeal prominence, known more commonly as the Adam’s Apple, is formed by the size and angle of the thyroid cartilages that surround Read More…

Case Study: Otoplasty for Protruding Ears

Background: The shape of the ear, like the nose, is one of the most variable features of one’s face. While it is chocked full of hills and valleys composed of cartilage and has an array of anatomic convolutions, the human ear is nonetheless very recognizeable. Any gross abnormalities in its shape and size is easily Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Bigger Older Nose

Background: There are a wide variety of reasons why people seek out a primary or initial rhinoplasty. Since patients don’t usually know the names of the nasal anatomy or the terminology of the rhinoplasty surgeon, they have to describe their concerns in layman’s terms. Concerns such as a ‘big hump’, ‘fat tip’, or ‘bulbous nose’ Read More…

Case Study: Small Silicone Gel Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast augmentation is one surgical plastic surgery procedure whose numbers performed per year continue to rise. One such reason is that the desire for larger breasts encompasses a wide variety of desires from being just a little bigger to very big and a large number of implant styles and sizes to match. On both Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Broad Tip

Background: Aesthetic nasal concerns present in a wide variety of deformities throughout the length of the nose. One of the more common basic nasal concerns is the wide or broad nasal tip. Some patients call it a fat tip or a bulbous tip. While all of these names seem synonymous there are actually a wide Read More…

Case Study: Strong Male Jawline Enhancement

Background: A well-defined and strong jawline is a desireable male feature. While modern culture and media have made it seem a recent attractive male trait, it has been so for as far back in history as pictures have been drawn and sculptures have been created. A strong lower facial structure provides not only good aesthetic Read More…

Case Study: The Value of Nipple Lifts in Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast implants are placed in a wide variety of breast shapes. While they will always increase breast size that does not mean an improved breast shape will always result. A key feature of the perception of breast shape is the location of the nipple-areolar complex. It is always most aesthetically pleasing when it is Read More…