Case Studies

EYE

Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty

D, 57, Caucasian D came in the clinic for desire for facial rejuvenation. She had a lot of excess skin dropping in the upper eyelid covering her eyes, sagging of the face and neck. Both upper and lower eyelid procedures were done at the same time with her face and neck lift. VIEW STORY

H, 25, Asian H used to use eyelid tapes to create the double fold. The skin looses its elasticity after a while and she would like to have a more permanent solution. After a simple surgery, H no longer needs to use the tape anymore.  VIEW STORY

R, 37, Asian R is a 37 year old lady from Flushing. She had prominent single fold eyelids, brow asymmetry and a widen eye distance. Only double eyelid surgery was performed since she was not interested in correcting her brow position and having a medial canthoplasty. VIEW STORY

M, 40, Asian M is a 40 year old lady from China. She had double eyelid when she was young but with aging her skin sagged and her double fold disappeared. Upper eyelid surgery was done to restore her double fold. Only local anesthesia was used and surgery was done within 30 minutes. VIEW STORY

S, 36, Caucasian S had an upper blepharoplasty procedure done by another physician two years ago. But while she was healing from the surgery she fell and caused a depression on her left upper eyelid. This was corrected with a revisional upper blepharoplasty procedure under local. She is happy with her result. Notice the even contour on the left eye now. VIEW STORY

Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty

G, 59, African American G is a 59 year old lady who since childhood has been bothered by her puffy upper and lower eyelids. Her main concern was the baggy appearance under her lower lids, they often make her look tired and swollen as if she stayed up every night. After discussion and examining her skin, an approach inside the eyelid was done to avoid any incision on the skin outside. All the excess fat was taken out through the small incision. Notice the disappearance of her eyebags in all eye positions. VIEW STORY

Brow And Forehead Lift

F, 61, Asian F was introduced to my clinic by his wife for evaluation of eyelid and brow rejuvenation. He was constantly bothered by the angry and aged appearance of his eyes. He constantly felt he had to forcefully use his forehead to elevate his brow and he had problems seeing the upper half of his visual field. Notice the difference between his brow and eyelid position before and after surgery.  He not only can see better but also looks happier. VIEW STORY

J, 67, Caucasian J came in with a chief complaint of droopy brow and wrinkled forehead. She would like to get rid of the heavy brow appearance with minimal scar. Endoscopic forehead lift was done to lift her brow and also rid of the glabella wrinkles. VIEW STORY

B, 61, Caucasian B came in with a chief complain of asymmetrical brow. She had suffered injury to the left brow many years ago and it always stayed low in position compared to the right. Surgery was done endoscopically to lift her left eyebrow and fat grafting was done to improve the sunken appearance of her eyes. Notice the improvement in brow asymmetry when she raises her eyebrow and the fuller appearance especially in the right eye socket. VIEW STORY

W, 62, Asian W came in with concerns for her forehead and glabella wrinkles and the heavy appearance of her brow. After consultation, browlift with forehead lift were done to decrease the wrinkles. Lower blepharoplasty was also done at the same time to improve her eyebag appearance and remove the excess skin. VIEW STORY

NOSE

Rhinoplasty

S, 27, Asian S works as a real estate agent in New York. She had an unknown substance injected to her nose a few years ago in China. She was told it was hyaluronic acid but it actually never went away and actually grew bigger with time according to her. Rhinoplasty was done to remove the foreign body and straighten her nose. Autologous cartilage was also used to increase the tip projection. VIEW STORY

V, teenager, Caucasian V is a teenager who had been teased in school for many years for the appearance of her nose. She had a large dorsal hump and a bulbous tip. After extensive discussion with both V and her mom, rhinoplasty was done to reduce the overall size but project her nasal tip while removing the large dorsal hump. She was very happy with the result, immediately started taking selfies as soon as her splint was removed. VIEW STORY

E, 23, African, Ghana E is a 23 year old medical student. She came from Ghana to study in New York. She was concerned with the dorsal hump on her nose and did not like the rounded and flattened appearance of her nasal tip. After consultation, her small dorsal hump was reduced and autologous cartilage was used to increase the projection of her nose while reducing the roundedness. VIEW STORY

C, 41, Hispanic C previously had a rhinoplasty done a few years ago in Colombia to decrease the size of her nose. It was, however, overdone. She ended up with a noticeable depression in the center of her nose and the edges of the remaining nasal bone were visible. Revision rhinoplasty was done through a close approach to correct this defect. Her nose looked natural and normal again. VIEW STORY

B, 33, Hispanic B also had a rhinoplasty done in Colombia a few years ago. However, she was not satisfied with the amount of correct and also she was left with a deviated septum. A closed rhinoplasty was done to correct this defect without any scars on the outside skin. VIEW STORY

D, 41, Indian D did not like the hook look of her nasal tip. She also wanted her tip to be more projected at the same time. Rhinoplasty surgery was done to increase the projection of her tip and improve the hooking tip. The changes are subtle but noticeable and natural. VIEW STORY

FACE

Face Lift

R, 67, Caucasian Because of constant sun exposure and strong wind blow on the deck everyday, R's face aged faster than ladies of her age. She also lost a lot of weight from diet and exercise. After surgery, she was ecstatic by her results. Her face looks fuller, her wrinkles in the face and the bands in her neck were gone. She later returned for another procedure to rejuvenate her lower eyelid. VIEW STORY

D, 58, Caucasian D previously had a facelift done in outside hospital but was unhappy with her result. Facelift with forehead lift were done to correct both her droopy lower face and her heavy brows. She instantly looked at least 10 years younger with her lower face lifted and her eyes opened up with the forehead and brow lift. VIEW STORY

Neck Lift

V, 57, Caucasian V wanted total facial rejuvenation to correct her droopy face and brow. She also emphasized the desire to get rid of her “turkey neck”. She was extremely pleased with her neck, she regained the youthful look she once had. Her friends believes she looked at least 10 years younger. VIEW STORY

M, 64, Caucasian M works as a nanny. She came in with chief complaint of the layered appearance of her neck. Face and neck lifts were done at the same time. Incisions were well hidden and she had a tremendous improvement in terms of her neck contour. Notice all the excess skin folds disappeared under her chin. VIEW STORY

D, 49, African American D was a nurse who worked in the same hospital. She complained of her “double chin” appearance. Necklift with liposuction was done to improve the overall contour of her neck and submental area. VIEW STORY

D, 57, Caucasian D is a retired police officer. She came in the clinic for desire for facial rejuvenation. She had a lot of excess skin dropping in the upper eyelid covering her eyes, sagging of the face and neck. Both upper and lower eyelid procedures were done at the same time with her face and neck lift.  She was very happy with her results and looked at least 10 years younger! VIEW STORY

BREAST

Breast Augmentation

L, 32, Asian L is petite and always had been flat chested. Her breasts also sit low on her chest wall. She also expressed difficulty in wearing more feminine clothes. Due to the likelihood of scarring in Asian people and her preference not to have any visible scar from the frontal view, transaxillary endoscopic breast augmentation was done. VIEW STORY

S, 18, Caucasian S is an 18 year old young lady who came to seek help for breast augmentation. For her entire high school years, she felt embarrassed with her breast size and shape. After consultation with mom and her, with the goal of releasing her tuberous breast balancing with a well hidden scar in mind, periareolar breast augmentation was performed.  VIEW STORY

M, 35, Asian M is a 35 year old Asian lady who is the mother of one child. She desired large breasts because of deflation after breast feeding. She also at the same time wanted her nipple reduced in size because she did not like the enlarged and aged look. After discussion, transaxillary breast augmentation was done and using minimal incision technique her nipples were reduced at the same time both in width and height. VIEW STORY

M, 46, Swedish M is a very beautiful lady from Sweden who used to work as a fashion model in Manhattan. She now is a full time housewife. She came to clinic with desire to restore the volume and shape of the breasts she once had. Because she is about 6 feet (183 cm) tall and has a wide shoulder, she would like at least a D cup size for her breasts. VIEW STORY

M, 35, Hispanic M is a social worker in the hospital. She came for breast augmentation and she wanted the least visible scar possible. After discussion, augmentation through her areola was done to give her a desired C cup.  VIEW STORY

B, 33, Hispanic B is a mother of one child. She came to clinic for breast augmentation consult. She had an irregular scar on her right medial chest from radiation in childhood so she was afraid another incision would scar the same way. After discussion, transaxillary breast augmentation was done to avoid any visible scar on the breast and chest. VIEW STORY

D, 30, African American D always wanted bigger breasts since young. She was very flat chested and underwent a breast augmentation one year ago. She now wants to upgrade from a B cup to a C cup. Implant exchange was done through her old incision and she was happy with size afterwards. VIEW STORY

D, 40, Indian D had two kids and since then she felt her breasts had been deflated. She was proud of her natural double D breast when she was young and would like to return to her youthful look. Notice the difference in terms of filling her deflated upper pole of the breast and also the lifting effect for the nipple position after breast augmentation. VIEW STORY

Breast Lift

A, 20, Caucasian A is 20 year old young mother. She gave birth to her first child about one year ago. Prior to pregnancy she had D cup breasts but during breastfeeding her breasts grew to DDD in size. After finishing breast feeding, she was left with large floppy breasts with dramatically enlarged areola and her nipples sagged to her mid abdomen. She desired to return to her youthful shape and projection. VIEW STORY

M, 41, Caucasian M lost a lot of weight about one year ago through only diet and exercise. She is a mother of two and previously had an abdominoplasty to improve her body contour. She would like her breasts now to match the youthful appearance of her abdomen. After discussion, she did not want any implants so a breast lift procedure was done to lift the position of her nipple and gave her an overall fuller and less saggy breasts. VIEW STORY

Breast Lift / Augmentation

A, 29, Caucasian A came to see me after previous consultation with other surgeons. She expressed her goal of a minimal incision breast lift and the desire of augmenting her breasts at the same time. After discussion, we reached a decision together of hiding all the incision around the areola while reducing its size and augmenting the breast through the same incision. She was extremely satisfied with the result and there was no visible incision on her breasts, even her husband could not tell where her incision was. VIEW STORY

C, 33, African American C is 33 year old nurse working in New York. She had long been wanting to increase her breast size and also improve the droopy appearance. During consultation, we went over the size she wanted and the kind of incision she would tolerate. We came to the decision together at the end to augment her breast with a mid size silicone implant under the muscle and designed a skin pattern excision to shrink her large areola and lifting the dropped breast tissue. VIEW STORY

D, 25, African American D had a breast augmentation with breast lift a few years ago by a surgeon in Texas. She later developed malpositioning of the left breast implant. It was riding too high because of formation of the scar. The previous incision was used and scar was released to allow a more natural breast position and shape. Notice the difference of her left breast before and after surgery from both views. VIEW STORY

Mommy Makeover

C, 41, Caucasian C is a 41-year-old lady who previously had a rhinoplasty done and was happy with her result. She came back to the clinic for consultation regarding breast and abdomen rejuvenation. After discussion, it was determined the best combination for her would be a breast lift with augmentation and abdominoplasty with liposuction at the same time.  VIEW STORY

C, 30, Asian C is a 30 year-old mother of two. She had gained a lot of weight since pregnancy and could not lose the fat especially in the abdomen and flanks. She previously had a smaller breast augmentation but would like to be exchanged to bigger size. She is a tall lady with a wide frame so bigger implants would work for her. After understanding her goals, an abdominoplasty with a main focus on liposuction and transaxillary breast implant exchange with capsule release and replacement with bigger implants were done. She was extremely happy with her result! VIEW STORY

Breast Reduction

A, 26, TV Program Director, African American A is a 26 year lady who suffered constant shoulder and neck strain from the large breasts she was given with. Most of her bra has to be custom made and she complains the lack of selection and design of those bra. Having done many homework in the past, she asked many good questions regarding details like reduction of areolar size, amount of weight she would like to lose, and the new cup size she would like to be. VIEW STORY

Male Breast Reduction

B, 27, Indian B is a 27 year old male who recently lost a lot of weight from diet and exercises alone.  Even though he had improvement in terms of his body contour he constantly felt embarrassed about his enlarged breasts. He avoids all swimming pools, sauna, beach, locker rooms, or anywhere he needs to take his shirt off.  He even wears extra clothing in the summer trying to disguise his breast contour. After surgery his breast improved tremendously in terms of size and he no longer feels self conscious all the time. Notice no visible scar is seen with this technique. VIEW STORY

BODY

Abdominoplasty

Z, 33, Hispanic Z is a 33 year-old mother whose abdomen could not return to her pre pregancy state. After consultation, abdominoplasty was performed in conjunction with umbilical hernia repair, left accessory breast tissue removal and body liposuction. Her incision is well hidden and her stretch marks in the lower abdomen were removed. VIEW STORY

N, 42, Caucasian N is a mother of two and was referred to me through her friends. She was most concerned about her protuberant belly. She has tried exercises and diet but was unable to reach the body shape she wanted. To repair both the muscle separation and give her the flat abdomen she wanted, abdominoplasty with a focus on body liposuction was done. VIEW STORY

S, 36, Caucasian S is a physician himself. He had gone through cycles of weight gain and weight loss in the past 10 years. This has caused him tremendous mental distress because of the body image he hoped to obtain. After considering all the surgical options and his current condition and goal, liposuction with abdominoplasty was done. VIEW STORY

P, 34, Hispanic P is a mother of two. She would like to regain her pre-pregnancy body shape and wear her bikini again. Liposuction and abdominoplasty with a low bikini line incision was designed for her. She was very happy with her result and quickly got tanned from the beach after surgery! VIEW STORY

N, 42, Caucasian N came to see me mainly because of the protuberant belly that persisted since childbirth. She complains that she still looks like 6 months pregnant. On exam, her large belly was mainly from the separation of muscles from multiple large pregnancies. To give her the best result possible, only a very small amount of body liposuction was done and surgery was focused on repairing the separated muscle underneath. VIEW STORY

W, 62, Asian W works as a nurse in New York. She moved to the USA from Taiwan many years ago.  She came to me for desire of having a youthful abdomen body back. Her main complaint is the wrinkled abdomen and the lack of waistline curve. VIEW STORY

Y, 45, Caucasian Y came to my clinic with the main concern of a bad scar from her previous C section. Her C section scar was obliquely orientated and resulted in a fatty roll hanging over the scar. She also had a small umbilical hernia found on physical exam. Her scar line was shifted to be hidden under her underwear, extra fat roll was removed and her umbilical hernia was repaired at the same time. VIEW STORY

Liposuction

D, 49, Nurse, African American D previously had an abdominoplasty done in an outside hospital, however she was not satisfied with the overall curve of her body. She preferred an exaggerated hip with a smaller waist. Liposuction was done to accentuate that look. Notice the gain in that hour glass shape before and after surgery. VIEW STORY

Fat Grafting

M, 59, Hispanic M is a nice lady who came with a chief complaint of her hands. She complained that her hands prematurely aged, they looked older than her age and she felt very self-conscious every time she put her hands out to grab something or played cards with her friends. Specifically she did not like the prominent veins and the atrophic look. Fat liposuctioned from her belly was used to rejuvenate hand hands and feet, notice the less prominent veins and a fuller appearance of the hands after surgery. VIEW STORY

Massive Weight Loss

T, 35, Hispanic T lost more than 100 lb though massive weight loss surgery a few years ago. She underwent abdominoplasty and brachioplasty one year ago to contour her body. She came to clinic because of the excess loose skin hanging in her medial thigh. Medial thigh lift was done to rid of all excess skin and remaining fat. Incision was well hidden and notice the improved curve and firmness of both thighs. She was happy that she now could fit in tighter pants again. VIEW STORY

D, 45, Caucasian D lost tremendous amount of weight in a short time through massive weight lose surgery. She was left with saggy skin on her breast. She would like her breast lifted and augmented at the same time to correct the droopy look. VIEW STORY

C, 28, Caucasian C is a mother of two. Through weight loss surgery, she lost 220 lb (~100 kg) in a short period. She was left with tremendous amount of excess skin causing her functional and cosmetic problems. Circumferential body lift was done to address the lower abdomen. She is planning for another surgery to address her upper abdomen and droopy breasts. VIEW STORY

N, 31, Hispanic N works as an EMT (emergency medical team) with the ambulance. She has lost 98 lb through recent weight loss surgery. She however was not able to wear the belt carrying the emergency equipments required for work due to her hanging skin. Circumferential body lift was done to rid of all the excess skin. VIEW STORY