Plastic, Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery videos

Complications, when one has one’s jaw cut and moved in one direction or the other—lower jaw or upper jaw—failure to heal, infection, not properly aligned so you still have not solved the problem completely.

Temporomandibular joint surgery is done when there is severe clicking or inability to chew properly. This operation is kind of done with a prosthesis, an artificial hinge in a sense, and it is fraught with complications, and I would strongly advise anybody not to do the procedure unless they are...

Hopefully most of the time you will meet the patient’s expectation of having a face that is more harmonious, where the parts of the face fit together in a more pleasant and aesthetic way.

When there is a maxillofacial surgery with wiring or bone grafts, usually or often the teeth have to be wired together so they can’t move, and this is not only unpleasant and uncomfortable, but interferes, obviously, with chewing. So for probably six weeks, everything goes into a blender and is...

Well, a jaw augmentation consultation involves first of all, as with any consultation, asking the patient first of all what they want. What do they want to achieve? Once the patient tells you, and you feel the patient is appropriate for this procedure, you then describe the operations I did...

A good candidate for reconstructive jaw surgery is someone who has a medical deformity and it will benefit from implants of various types. The other much more complicated problem is when someone has sever overbite or underbite and the actual jaw or bone, or the maxilla, the upper jaw, has...

Well, there are other types of implants that can be used. The only common implant is the cheek implant. The check implants have very strange complications. Cheek implants can get infected. They certainly can be misplaced, but on rare occasions, somebody’s who’s had cheek implants comes back five years later...

Could you please describe possible chin implant complications?The chin implant complications are, of course, infection and the other one is misplacement. I had a patient here yesterday who, some doctor had put a chin implant in and she had three revision surgeries, and it still wasn’t right. So, again, it’s...

Please describe the main benefits of chin implant surgery.The benefit of chin implant surgery is that people with weak or sometimes hardly noticeable chins at all are viewed to be weak and ineffectual. Psychological studies have done this. It’s assumed that people with weak chins are thought to be weak...

Could you please describe the process of chin implant surgery?Chin implants can be placed in two ways, an incision in the chin or an incision inside the mouth. I now prefere to make the incision inside the mouth because it leaves no visible scar. Even if it is done through...