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Case Study: Liposuction of Cankles

  Background: Liposuction is a very versatile procedure that can be done just about anywhere on the body where there is fat. Subcutaneous fat exists under any skin area in the body and is amenable to be treated if the right cannula size is chosen. Very small cannulas are available today for fat extraction done Read More…

Case Study: Adult Primary Cleft Lip Repair

  Background: Cleft lip and palate deformities are a well recognized birth defects that affects around 1:1000 births. In the U.S., they commonly undergo a primary repair of the cleft lip in the first three to six months of life. Outside of the U.S., American plastic surgeons are well known to travel all over the Read More…

Case Study: Breast Augmentation in Widely Spaced Breasts

Background: The desire for larger breasts is very effectively achieved through the placement of implants behind the breast tissue/mound. This will create a larger and rounder breast mound but that is usually the limit of what it actually achieves. Implants have little capability to do much breast lifting and it can not change the position Read More…

Case Study: The Lower Buttock Lift for the Sagging Infragluteal Fold

Background: Buttock enhancement surgery has become a primary method of body contouring plastic surgery. HavingĀ  a shapely and fuller buttocks has taken on great signficance for a more attractive body form. The buttocks for some now rivals what has been the breasts for many in the past. While most of the notoriety belongs to the Read More…

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: 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…

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