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Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Lengthening Chin Implant Replacement for an Old Ruptured Silicone Gel Chin Implant

Background: Chin implants are the original form of aesthetic facial augmentation. Their design has always been primarily for horizontal augmentation with variable amounts of width increases built into different implant styles. While some patients have been recognized as needing some vertical height increases as well surgeons have typically used these horizontally projecting implants in a Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combined Sagittal Bump and Parasagittal Dip Augmentation Skull Contouring

Background: The sagittal crest is a common aesthetic skull prominence whose presence is magnified in the male with short hair or a shaved head. The sagittal crest comes in a wide variety of presentations from a small bump to a long elongated ridge. In many sagittal crests the head shape has an inverted V shape Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Vertical Lengthening Effects of Large Horizontal Sliding Genioplasty Movements

Background: The concept of the sliding genioplasty is fairly straightforward. Cut the chin bone, move it forward and put a plate on it to hold it into place. While this is true there are numerous aesthetic and technical considerations involved that can make for a successful or unsuccessful aesthetic outcome. Such factors include what dimensional Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Forehead Contouring Combining Bony Prominence Reductions and Indentation Augmentations

Background: The forehead occupies a full one third of the face and is typically perceived as a flat nondescript bony surface. But its surface topography is more complex with potential brow bone prominences, a central glabellar valley, supra brow bone breaks, frontal eminence prominences and lateral temporal lines. All of which can lead to an Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Four Piece Head Widening Implant with First Stage Scalp Expansion

Background: The narrow head shape is defined as having a decreased bi-temporal and bi-parietal bony skull widths. These can be determined by actual measurements but, more importantly, it can be seen from the outside as well as just looking at a 3D CT skull scan of the patient. The narrow head shape may often involves Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Bilateral Upper Forearm and Right Volar Forearm Implants for Augmentation and Symmetry Improvement

Background: When it comes to aesthetic augmentation of the arms the upper arm is almost almost always what is done. The biceps and triceps of the upper arms are larger muscles in which subfascial and submuscular implant augmentation is possible and there are standard implant styles available to do so. When it comes to the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Secondary Occipital Knob and Bun Reduction Completion

Background: The back of the head is composed of multiple skull segments of which the occipital bone is a major component. The occipital bone is a non-paired bone that occupies the lower 2/3s of the skull in the back of the head. It is also the primary bone of which many neck muscles attach. As Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Left Solid Testicle Implant Replacement with Right Wraparound Testicle Implant Enhancement

Background: Testicle implants from an aesthetic standpoint have some similarities to breast implants. The end goal is to have an implant in a surrounding sack of skin that is soft, supple and moves without restriction or pain. While the implant type is quite different, a testicle implant is solid silicone while a breast implant is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Frontal Hairline Advancement

Background: One important dimension of the forehead is it’s vertical length as defined by the distance between the eyebrows to the frontal hairline. This distance is obviously influenced significantly by the location of the frontal hairline which can be quite high in many men (or absent) and in some women as well. Presuming one has Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Male Occipital Skull Reduction Through A Superior Incisional Approach

Background: Excessive projection on the back of the head is a common request for skull reduction. Consideration for whether such skull reduction can be a good aesthetic procedure is how much reduction can be achieved and where is the incisional access going to be to do it. The effectiveness of the procedure depends on how Read More…