Category: facelift | plastic surgery case study

Case Study: Facelift in the Male Weight Loss Patient

Background: Facelifting in men is less commonly done than in women. This is for a variety of reasons including better quality of bearded facial skin that is more resistant to sagging, more tolerance for the profile of an aging neck, and concerns about having the procedure. Many men wait until their sagging necks and Read More…

Case Study: Rhinoplasty for the ‘Fat’ Nose

Background: Undesired shapes and sizes of a nose comes in many different forms. But one common nasal shape concern is that of the thick or fat nose. This type of nose problem almost always has thick skin and a very round or broad nasal tip. The nasal tip is often not only wide but Read More…

Case Study: Lip Reduction for Dry Lips

Background:While considerable cosmetic effort goes into making lips larger, the need or desire for the opposite effect is much more limited. Reduction of lips that are perceived to be too big is largely limited to certain ethnic groups and some lip enhancement patients that wish to reverse their unnaturally large and distorted lips. While Read More…

Case Study: The Posterior Arm Lift after Extreme Weight Loss

Background: Most people pay little attention to the size and shape of their upper arms, unless they are too big or floppy. With extreme weight loss, aided by bariatric surgery or a very dedicated diet and exercise program, the upper arm skin will sag considerably. While the loss of fat deflates the volume of the Read More…

Case Study: The Direct Necklift for Female Neck Wattles

Background:Changes in the neck is one of the most bothersome facial changes that occurs as one ages. A sagging neck can ‘grow’ into a really significant neck wattle by the time one reaches their sixties and seventies. When the neck sags to this degree, it literally flops from side to side and hangs down Read More…

Case Study: The Hairline Browlift in Women

Background: Aging of the upper face primarily involves that which appears in the forehead. Falling of the eyebrows onto or off of the brow bone and the appearance of horizontal and vertical wrinkles are the classic, and quite frankly, only aging signs that can appear. The amount, if any, of brow sagging is the Read More…

Case Study: Secondary Breast Lifts For Sagging After Breast Augmentation

Background: Breast augmentation is based on the principle of expanding one’s natural breast tissue by placing an implant behind it. Regardless of whether the implant is placed within the breast tissue above the muscle (subglandular) or beneath the muscle (submuscular), how it works is the same. As a result, how well most breast augmentations will Read More…

Case Study: Reconstruction of the Gauged Earlobe

Background: The adornment of the earlobe goes to back to nearly the beginning of mankind. Besides being a very visible piece of anatomy right next to the face, it is also easy to manipulate because it is composed of just skin and fat without more firm cartilage like the rest of the ear. Besides Read More…

Case Study: Minimally Invasive Cranioplasty using Kryptonite Bone Cement

Background: The shape of one’s skull is not often thought of as a major cosmetic issue. Much of this is because it is largely hidden by hair in most women and in many young men. But with hair loss in men and the contemporary hairstyle of total scalp shaving, the shape of one’s skull Read More…

Case Study: Revision of Gynecomastia Reduction Crater Deformities

Background: The treatment of certain types of gynecomastias employs the use of direct excision. Direct excision may be combined with liposuction but the dense tissue of some gynecomastias does not respond well to liposuction alone. Unlike liposuction, however, directly cutting out male breast tissue underneath the nipple can easily be overdone and too much Read More…