Category: plastic surgery case study | sliding genioplasty

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Secondary Bony Genioplasty For Increased Vertical and Horizontal Dimensional Increases

Background: The sliding genioplasty is the autologous option for chin augmentation. It s a versatile procedure from a dimensional standpoint and can provide significant horizontal advancements, vertical lengthening/shortening and width narrowing but is limited in being able to create increased chin width. It is the only option, short of injectable fillers and fat, for patients Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Submental Approach to Hyperdynamic Chin Ptosis Correction

Background: The shape of he chin is typically perceived in how it is seen from different angles…in the static non-smiling position. But it can also present aesthetic abnormalities when one is smiling from a dynamic standpoint. One very specific dynamic chin shape is soft tissue chin pad ptosis. Ptosis of the chin is typically associated Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Vertical Ear Reshaping with a Scaphal Flap Technique

Background: The appearance of the ear is primarily affected by the amount and shape of its cartilage component. Only the earlobe escapes this effect because it contains no cartilage. The most common shape abnormality of the ear is when it protrudes due to either an excessive conchal bowl, a weak or absent antihelical cartilage fold Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combined Eyebrow Scar Revision and Upper Eyelid Ptosis Repair From Traumatic Injuries

Background: Soft tissue trauma is not uncommon around the prominent brow bone region of the upper third of the face. When the eyebrow soft tissues are compressed against the edge of the brow bone usually the soft tissue will separate before the bone fractures creating a laceration. Because this laceration involves a hair bearing area, Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Excision of Scalp Mass With Vertical Scalp Tuck

Background: The thick hair bearing scalp can develop a variety of benign soft tissue masses/tumors. Lipomas, dermoid cysts and pilomatrixomas are the most common and develop from natural structures that exists in the scalp. (fat, sweat/oil glands and hair follicles) Most such masses are readily identifiable when they are seen by exposing and removing them Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Combined Frontal Hairline Advancement with Forehead Horn Reduction

Background: There are multiple hard and soft tissue reduction procedures that can be done to the forehead. Bony reductions include such prominences as frontal bossing and forehead horn reduction to name some of the most commonly done. The only soft tissue forehead reduction procedure is a frontal hairline advancement. Each one of these forehead reduction Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Long Term Outcome in Male Intraoral Vertical Chin Reduction

Background: The most common chin reshaping procedure in a male is augmentation. Most commonly it is in a horizontal dimension but the chin augmentation changes may occasionally also include vertical lengthening and transverse widening. But regardless of the specific dimensional changes augmentation of the chin makes up 95% of all male requests/needs. In women chin Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom HTR Implants for Fullness-Thickness Lateral Brow/Orbital Rim Reconstruction

Background: Residual defects of the forehead and orbital regions are very common from prior early craniofacial surgery procedures. While moving skull and facial bones around at a young age are an ideal time for the bones to heal and open bone gaps to fit in, long term such skull and orbital bone reshaping procedures can Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Skull Implant and Sagittal Crest Reduction for the Inverted V Shape Skull Deformity

Background: The shape of the head is typically rounder regardless of the view to which it is seen. In the profile view it has an oblong curved convex shape. When seen from behind the shape of the head is fairly round. When looked at front the front, which is how most people see their head, Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Open Rhinoplasty for Caudal Septal Deviation Correction and Tip Refinement

Background: A deviated septum is one of the most recognized of all deformities of the nose. It is typically seen on the outside as a nose that is deviated or twisted although not every deviated septum causes an externally deviated nose. One unique but not uncommon type of septal deformity is that of the Read More…