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Case Study: Earlobe Lengthening by Injectable Fillers

Background: The ear is essentially fully grown by around age none and is close to 60mms in vertical length. (slight less in women and slightly more in men) Unlike the rest of the ear above it, the earlobe has no cartilage and is composed of flexible skin and fat. The size of the earlobe is Read More…

Case Study: Saline Breast Implant Deflation and Replacement

Background: Breast augmentation can be done by two types of implants, saline and silicone. Since silicone implants have become available again nearly eight years ago in 2006, the percentage of women undergoing breast enhancement receiving saline implants has been slowly declining. But saline implants will always be around as, at the least, they offer the Read More…

Case Study: Skull Dimple Correction by Augmentation Cranioplasty

  Background: While the shape of the skull is typically smooth, it is not rare that one may have various small contour deformities. These could be raised or indented areas depending upon their location on the skull. Many of these skull shape issues are related to their initial formation through the cranial sutures and their Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the Crooked Nose

Background: Combination internal nasal surgery to improve breathing and external nasal reshaping is commonly done. Technically this is known as a septorhinoplasty procedure.  While the two nasal surgeries can be done separately and frequently are, one can always influence the other adversely. An overly done rhinoplasty can collapse the middle vault  and narrow the internal Read More…

Case Study: Submuscular Breast Augmentation in Body Builders

Background: Body builders and figure enthusiasts create chest and arm muscular volume and definition by cutting fat and inducing muscular hypertrophy. But what differentiates male and female bodybuilders from a chest standpoint is that females should have a breast mound while men are flat. But due to the regimented stripping of fat as part of Read More…

Case Study – Custom Temporal Implants for Head Widening

Background: The head has a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Like the face, there are  certain head shapes that are more pleasing than others. While one knows intuitively whether they like their head shape or not, there are certain measurements of height and width of the head that can help classify its beauty or Read More…

Case Study: Custom Vertical Lengthening Jawline Implant

Background: One of the original facial implants ever made was for a short chin. Chin implants are the oldest facial implant used and can do a job of lengthening a wide variety of horizontal chin/jaw deficiences. Other jaw deficiences in the angle area on the back end of the jaw can also be augmented by Read More…

Case Study: Vertical Ear Reduction (Macrotia Surgery)

Background: Otoplasty is a common aesthetic surgery for ear reshaping which very successfully corrects a protruding ear problem. From incisions behind the ear,  a cartilage fold is created by sutures that pulls the helical rim backward reducing its outer prominence and lessening the aurioculomastoid angle. While ears that stick out often look big, they usually Read More…

Case Study: Eyelid Lifts (Blepharoplasty) in the Older Male

Background: Aging begins around the eyes early in life and continues unabated up through one’s senior years. This periorbital aging is manifested by the creation of extra eyelid skin which is caused by the stretching of the thin eyelid skin due to frequent movement. As the redundant eyelid skin becomes excessive it weighs down the Read More…

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