Category: plastic surgery case study | shoulder reduction

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Clavicle Reduction Osteotomies Using A Telecoping Technique For Narrowing Asymmetric Shoulders

Background: Reductive shoulder reshaping, often called shoulder narrowing surgery, works by shortening the length of the clavicles. Through a small incision located in the supraclavicular fossa a segment of the clavicle is removed and the ends reapproximated. This pulls in the distal clavicle and shoulder because the medial end of the clavicle, its sternoclavicular joint Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Standard Jaw Angle Implant and Bone Overgrowth Removals with Custom Jaw Angle Implant Replacements

Background: Jaw angle implants pose very difficult challenges than chin implants in both size and style selection as well as surgical placement. The most obvious difference is that a chin implant is a single procedure while jaw angle implants are two procedures due to their bilateral locations. Positioning a single implant over a solitary projecting Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Forehead and Temporal Skull Reductions for Reshaping The Wide Head with a Prominent Forehead

Background: Frontal bossing is usually an isolated aesthetic skull deformity. Similarly excessive head width/convexity is often also a localized head shape issue. But there are some patients where the two are related and are part of an overall larger and wider head. The width created by the frontal bossing extends over onto the side of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Ultrasoft Solid Silicone Testicle Implant Replacement for A Long Indwelling Saline-Filled Testicle Implant

Background: Somewhat similar to breast implants testicle implants are available in either saline or silicone compositions. What differentiates silicone breast implants from silicone testicle implants is that in the breast the silicone implant is a gel-filled bag vs in the scrotum the implant is solid silicone. While solid silicone will always feels a bit firmer Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant for Female Flat Back of the Head

Background: Flat areas on the skull are one of the primary indications for the use of custom skull implants. While flat skull areas can occur anywhere on the skull they have a propensity to be more on the back of the head than anywhere else. This is undoubtably due to that the back of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Male Mid-Forehead Approach to Brow Bone Reduction by Bone Flap Setback

Background: Brow bone reduction surgery today is most commonly associated with transgender facial feminization surgery with the goal being to flatten the brows as much as possible.While not as commonly known brow bone reduction in men has been done for a long time and actually precedes its application in transfemale surgery. What differentiates male vs Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Male Extended Custom Forehead-Skull Implant

Background: The forehead occupies a full third of the upper face and as such has a major role to play in facial aesthetics. Despite its broad surface area coverage it does not have many distinct features that creates its look. Other than the leading edge of the frontal hairline superiorly and the eyebrows inferiorly it Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Dermal-Fat Graft Augmentation of the Lips

Background: Lip augmentation is one of the more popular uses of injectable synthetic fillers and has been so for more than two decades. They offer an immediate and non-surgical method of lip augmentation that works fairly well when adequate vermilion height exists. But it does require periodic injections to maintain the effect and injections into Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Correction of the Forward Sloping Skull Shape with Custom Back of Head Skull Implant and Bony Forehead Reduction

Background: The soft spots on a baby’s head are well known and are its most distinguishing features. These open areas between the developing skull bones , known as fontanelles, total six in number but the most visible are the anterior and posterior ones. The anterior fontanelle is the largest of the two and closes between Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Temporal and Lateral Facial Implants for Facial Contour Restoration from Lipoatrophy

Background: Facial lipoatrophy, also known as facial wasting, refers to the loss of fat tissue causing concave facial contours. (So called gaunt face) These always occur above and below the horizontal skeletal lines of the zygomatic arch and jawline in the temporal and submalar/lateral facial areas. Lipoatrophyu occurs along a spectrum of expression from mild Read More…