Category: lip augmentation | plastic surgery case study

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: Correction of Eye/Orbital Asymmetry with Hydroxyapatite Cement

Background: The eyes are a central feature of the face and draw immediate attention whether one is looking at themselves or in where others look. Because the eyes are paired structures, their symmetry in appearance is important. Any differences in the appearance of the eyes is readily seen and could be the result of soft 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. Having 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: Combined Browlift and Eyelid Lifts in Severe Periorbital Aging

Background: The aging process around the eyes is classic. The near continuous motion of the eyelids creates loose skin and, with enough time and motion, the eyebrows will fall over the supraorbital rims and sag downward.. For many patients today, they have eyelid surgery early in life and never progress to see the extreme 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: 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…