Category: ear reshaping | otoplasty | plastic surgery case study

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…

Case Study: Upper Lip Labial Artery Aneurysm

Background: Aneurysms of blood vessels can be either true (often caused by atherosclerosis and involving all three components of the arterial wall) or false. (often caused by trauma and involving just a portion of the arterial wall) Most arterial aneurysms are perceived as involving large vessels (e.g., aorta) but they can involve any vessel small Read More…

Case Study: Male Vertical Lengthening Jaw Angle Implants

Background: One of the emerging areas of facial implant augmentation is that of the jaw angles. While jaw angle implants have been around for nearly two decades, their designs have been exclusively made for increasing jaw angle width. While there are some patients who seek a wider and more flared posterior jawline, a width only Read More…

Case Study: Breast Augmentation In A 60 Year-Old Woman

Background: Breast augmentation continues to be a very popular body contouring procedure with around 300,000 women in the U.S. having it every year. While the number of women getting breast implants has remained fairly steady over the past few years, the age range of women getting them appears to have changed to some degree. While Read More…

Case Study: Laser Resurfacing for Facial Brown Spots

Background: Solar lentigines, also called age spots and liver spots, are brown colored skin patches that can appear anywhere on the face and body. They most commonly appear on those skin areas that have a long history of sun exposure. As a result, these brown spots usually do not appear until age 40 and older Read More…

Case Study: Sagittal Ridge Reduction Skull Reshaping Surgery

Background: While many perceive that the skull is round and smooth, the reality is that is oblong and often irregular in many people. The skull is prone to lumps and bumps that often occur at its sutural interdigitations or crossroads. The cranial sutures are the last areas of the skull that ossify, often well after Read More…

Case Study: Realistic Male Abdominal and Love Handle Liposuction Results

Background: Liposuction is the most commonly performed body contouring procedure when judged by surface areas treated and the number of patients who undergo it. For men it is absolutely the most common aesthetic body contouring procedure and is largely done for the abdomen, waistline and chest. These are the primary areas in men that are Read More…

Case Study: Facelift with Chin Augmentation

Background: As the face ages the tissues above the jawline fall and descend over it. This ‘wax off the candle effect’ combined with a sagging neck create the need for a facelift procedure which reverses many of these facial aging effects. Contrary to the perception of many, a facelift only treats the lower third of Read More…

Case Study: One-Sided Brow Bone Reduction

Background: Prominent brow bones are the direct result of the development of the underlying frontal sinus. While all of the frontal forehead bone above the brows is very solid and thick skull bone, the brows are made up of air with only thin bone in front and back of its thickness. The anterior or frontal Read More…