Explore the fascinating world of cosmetic and plastic surgery with world-renowned double board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Barry Eppley
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Introduction A submental chin reduction (or submental contouring) is a surgical procedure designed to reshape the chin by reducing excessive projection or fullness beneath it — often referred to as a “double chin.” This should be differentiated from a submentoplasty or platysmaplasty, which targets the neck rather than the chin. Those procedures focus on removing Read More…
Background: The excessively projecting chin is most commonly perceived as a bone problem. And while that can be true in some patients a soft tissue excess can potentially be created by bone reduction alone. This is particularly relevant when an excessive soft tissue problems exists initially. This is most commonly seen when a stronger than Read More…
Background: In female chin augmentation, whether it is done by implant or a bony advancement, consideration must be given to avoiding an aesthetic over correction. The traditional cephalometric measurements that indicate the ideal position of the chin does not really apply to most women. What matters aesthetically is not what the bone or soft tissue Read More…
Background: The chin is seen as a relatively ‘simple’ anatomic structure with few risks of any neurovascular or dental complications from surgical implant or osteotomy manipulations. And while this is true from any major medical complications this is not accurate when it comes to aesthetic complications. The relationship of the enveloping soft tissue over the Read More…
Background: The chin is a distinctive human facial feature that is not found on other mammal. Its exact function has yet to be precisely defined. Its shape has a raised vertical ridge along the symphyseal midline along with paired bulbous formations on each side of its lower edge known as mental or lateral tubercles. These Read More…
I was just at the 40th annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in Goteborg Sweden as a feature speaker where I met a Swedish surgeon Dr. Igor Niecjajev who has practiced his entire career in Stockholm. He introduced me to a paper he had written on a procedure that I perform Read More…
Background: Chin reduction understandably is the antithesis to chin augmentation. But suffice it to say that a chin reduction is technically harder than a chin augmentation when considering the bone and soft tissue elements involved and isn fraught with its own unique set of challenges. The first one of these is the soft tissue chin Read More…
Background: Large chins are more of an aesthetic problem in women than in men as one might expect. As a result, chin reduction is most commonly performed in females. Aside from V-line jaw reduction surgery, which is its own aesthetic entity and does involve some degrees of reductive chin reshaping, female macrogenia reductions are isolated Read More…
Background: The chin implant is viewed as a simple surgery with no significant anatomic issues for its placement. But this often viewed concept is inaccurate as it fails to appreciate that an important element of making the implant pocket is release of some or all of the osteoligamentous attachments in making the suboperosteal pocket. If Read More…
Background: The large chin (macrogenia) can be caused by excessive bone, soft tissue or both. A unique form of congenital macrogenia, most commonly seen in females, is a pure soft tissue excess known as chin pad hypertyrophy. Often called a fleshy chin the size of the overlying soft tissue is disproportionately larger than that of Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...